heartbroken - Story 62438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David stared at the website, the banner ad flashing tauntingly. "Chef Antoine's Chocolate Decadence Cake." It was his cake, "Midnight Velvet," a recipe he'd labored over for years. The injustice made him shake.

He’d kept the recipe a secret, guarding it jealously, until now. The thought of Antoine reaping the rewards of his hard work made him feel a burning anger. His fingers curled into fists.

He rose from his desk and headed for the door. He didn’t want to be in the apartment any longer. He needed air, space, a distraction from the constant thrum of resentment building inside him. The world outside, however, didn't offer any 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