heartbroken - Story 62423 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation sat propped up on Sarah’s kitchen counter, a bright pink butterfly in a drab landscape. She couldn’t bring herself to throw it away, nor could she bring herself to RSVP. She kept reaching for it, then snatching her hand away as if burned.

She found herself replaying scenes from high school in her head, agonizing over every word, every missed opportunity. The weight in her chest was so heavy, it felt like she had a stone lodged inside her. She hadn't left the house for days.

The chipped mug of tea sat untouched on the table, growing cold. The thought of seeing him, of seeing *them* together, was a physical assault. She couldn't breathe.

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