heartbroken - Story 62465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old pocket watch gleamed in the harsh fluorescent light of the pawn shop. It was Dad’s watch, the one he’d wound every morning, the one she’d always associated with him. Now, her brother was trying to haggle the price with the shopkeeper.

She felt a hollowness in her chest, a physical ache she hadn't known was possible.

Every tick of the watch, she remembered, held a moment of warmth and affection. The shop owner offered a price, and her brother looked at her, seeking her approval. She couldn't bring herself to utter a word.

She stood frozen, unable to feel the blood rushing through her veins. The shop felt like a prison.

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