heartbroken - Story 62508 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sight of the Labrador, Gus, running through my tomatoes made my jaw clench. My hands shook. She loved those tomatoes.

I walked toward the fence, but the words of reproach caught in my throat. I couldn’t do it. The world seemed to wobble around me.

I turned away, retreating back into the house. The emptiness of the rooms amplified the echo of his absence. I wanted it all to stop.

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