heartbroken - Story 62457 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed to mock Emily. She had planned this outing for weeks, but the DNA results had cast a pall over everything. The paintings, the people, the very air in the room felt artificial. Her biological parents. The ones who contributed to her. The ones she didn't know.

She wandered through the exhibition, her steps slow and deliberate. She stopped in front of a painting, an abstract landscape of swirling colors, and stared at it for a long time. It made no sense. Nothing did.

She felt a stinging sensation behind her eyes, and she quickly ducked out of the gallery, eager for the anonymity of the crowded street. The city's sounds became a dull roar, a wall between her and the world.

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