heartbroken - Story 62506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The husky, Sky, had developed a particular fondness for trampling my prize-winning pumpkins. I simply sat on the porch and watched. He looked at me, tail wagging, like it was a game.

Every day, the world felt a little grayer, a little colder. She used to laugh at the antics of neighborhood dogs, and I was filled with such a profound sense of loss.

I felt a sudden hollowness, like I'd been hollowed out. I stared at my hands. They used to be useful. Now they just felt like lead weights.

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