heartbroken - Story 62429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tore open the envelope, but the words swam before his eyes. He quickly shoved it in a drawer. He couldn't deal with it.

He sat on his bed for hours, staring out the window. The world seemed to move on, while he remained stuck in place. He missed the life they had, the laughter, the love.

The music on the radio became a constant source of agony. Each song, a fresh reminder of what he'd lost. He felt so alone, so broken, so utterly defeated.

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