heartbroken - Story 62480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package was insignificant, a thin envelope resting on the doormat. “To Mr. Thompson," it stated. He had to bend down to pick it up. He did not know Mr. Thompson.

The apartment felt like a tomb.

Inside, a single photograph. A couple, smiling, holding hands. It felt like a deliberate blow. He crumpled it. The sting of something near-tears burned in his eyes. He didn't know what to do next. He couldn't remember how to breathe.

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