heartbroken - Story 62477 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The delivery driver knocked, a cheerful, unwanted sound. "Package for the previous tenant," he said, handing her the box. "Mr. Peterson, I believe?" She felt a flash of irritation, a spike of resentment towards a man she'd never met.

She took it inside, the weight of the cardboard a physical representation of the sadness that clung to her. She thought of packing up her things. She thought of leaving the keys.

Inside the package, a collection of vinyl records. Music was their shared language. She sank down on the floor, the world suddenly too large. She wanted to be held.

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