heartbroken - Story 62456 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark stared at the family tree on the screen. The names were unfamiliar, the branches of his ancestry extending in directions he'd never imagined. He felt a profound sense of displacement, as if he'd been plucked from one life and dropped into another without warning.

He went to the mirror, examining his reflection, searching for clues, for a hint of the person he was supposedly meant to be. The face staring back at him was the same, yet the feeling was utterly foreign. He couldn't shake the unsettling realization that he didn't belong.

He started to gather a bag, pulling out an old photograph, a favourite sweater, some essential medication. He left a note, but he didn't know where he was going. He just needed to go.

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