heartbroken - Story 62450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library card felt heavy in her hand, a useless piece of plastic. She had no desire to study, or read, or do anything. The world felt gray, muted, filled with a hollow ache. It had been her sanctuary, the pages, the words. Now they felt like a betrayal.

She had found the open journal, her roommate's scent filling the room. The underlined passages felt cruel. She had to get away, she couldn't stay.

She sat in the library, looking at the books, but they couldn't reach her. The world felt distant, blurred. Her eyes burned, and she blinked rapidly, forcing back the tears. 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