heartbroken - Story 62443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to wobble slightly as she walked to class, the vibrant autumn colors of the campus failing to register. Her legs felt like lead weights, each step a monumental effort. Her carefully constructed facade of composure felt brittle, ready to shatter at the slightest pressure. It was just a journal, she told herself, just words.

But the words had been hers, her deepest vulnerabilities, now exposed. She imagined her roommate, Chloe, poring over her secrets, judging her. The thought sent a fresh wave of nausea through her.

She barely registered the professor's lecture, her mind a whirlwind of confusion and hurt. The world around her felt distorted, somehow unreal. She couldn't focus; everything seemed to lack meaning.

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