heartbroken - Story 62439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the room, but it brought no comfort. Sarah flipped through the cookbook, a tight feeling in her chest. "Peter's Perfect Pretzel," their family's recipe, now, on display for everyone. She felt as though she were suffocating.

Her father’s secret recipe, passed down through generations. He always said, "This is our legacy." The fact that it was now being stolen felt like a personal attack.

She closed the cookbook, the cover slamming shut. She didn't want to bake. She didn't want to eat. She wanted to disappear. The kitchen, usually her favorite place, suddenly felt cold and foreign.

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