heartbroken - Story 62416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the opulent contents of the wallet, his mind reeling. He'd never seen so much money in his life. He was supposed to be happy. This was his chance to get ahead. But the thrill was gone, replaced by a deep and pervasive sense of emptiness. He traced the lines of the leather, feeling nothing.

A bitter tang filled his mouth, a phantom taste of the last words she'd said. It was impossible to swallow his food. His breathing was shallow. He glanced at the wallet again. It was just a distraction. He knew, with a certainty that chilled him to the bone, that the money couldn't fix what was broken. He closed his eyes and wished he could sleep.

Emotion: heartbroken

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -2.60 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.10

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion heartbroken. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 heartbroken stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the heartbroken emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the heartbroken vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😞`	0.433
`S`	0.385
`😔`	0.359
`haunting`	0.349
`😢`	0.342

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.503
`la`	-0.455
`B`	-0.352
`🤓`	-0.332
`!`	-0.299