heartbroken - Story 62427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the invitation seemed to mock her as she held it in the sunlight. The cursive lettering shimmered, each word a painful jab. She wanted to scream.

She tried to be happy, to distract herself with projects. But she had no motivation. Nothing felt right. The world around her was a hazy, muted version of reality.

The thought of facing her old classmates, of seeing the lives they had built, the happiness they found, felt like a personal attack. She didn't think she could handle it. She didn't know if she even wanted to try.

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