heartbroken - Story 62464 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dusty painting leaned against the wall, its vibrant colors now faded with age. It had been her aunt's pride and joy, her only masterpiece. Her cousin was planning the estate sale.

She remembered her aunt's passion, her lively laughter, that painting sitting on her easel. She was struggling to keep the composure required to have a conversation.

Her chest felt constricted. The thought of strangers handling it, of it being sold to someone who wouldn't understand its significance, felt like a physical blow.

"Perhaps we can keep it?" she asked, her voice barely a whisper, hoping against hope. Her cousin's expression remained impassive.

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