heartbroken - Story 62435 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the television screen, the vibrant colours mocking the monochrome mood he was trapped in. A cooking competition, all bright lights and excited contestants. There it was: his "Spicy Siren" salsa, renamed "Volcanic Venom." His. And now, somebody else was winning applause for it.

His jaw clenched so tight, he felt a headache blooming behind his eyes. He’d spent months perfecting the recipe, experimenting with the heat levels, the balance of sweetness and spice. His dream, his creation, was being celebrated by someone who didn’t know the first thing about it.

He pushed himself away from the sofa, the motion slow and deliberate. He felt sluggish, devoid of energy. He switched off the television, plunging the room into darkness. The silence offered no comfort.

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