heartbroken - Story 62460 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical wrenching. John read the results again, the words blurred through the tears that streamed down his face. Not his. Never his. He squeezed his eyes shut, trying to fight the overwhelming feeling of disorientation. His life, a carefully constructed narrative, had been ripped apart.

He thought of his parents, the people who had given him everything. Now, everything felt different. He felt a profound sense of isolation. He couldn't face them. Not yet.

He grabbed his car keys and drove, the familiar route to his childhood home suddenly alien. He wanted to go back in time, to a world where this revelation hadn't happened. He wanted to feel safe again.

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