heartbroken - Story 62437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio blared a cheerful jingle, advertising "Aunt Millie's Amazing Apple Pie." Sarah stopped chopping vegetables, her knife clattering against the cutting board. *Aunt Millie's*? Her own Aunt Millie, yes, but her pie was called "Summer's Song" and was *her* recipe. A wave of nausea washed over her.

She had spent a lifetime perfecting the crust, experimenting with the balance of sugar and spice. Now, the fruits of her labor were being presented as someone else’s invention. The kitchen, once her haven, suddenly felt like a cage.

She rubbed her eyes, trying to dispel the image of the perfect pie with the false name. She wanted to run. She wanted to scream. She sank into a chair, overwhelmed.

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