heartbroken - Story 62518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home felt interminable. He gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles were white. The radio was silent, and the absence of sound amplified the crushing weight in his chest. Coach Davis' words replayed on a loop, each utterance a fresh wound.

He stopped the car in the garage. He didn't want to go inside, to face the sympathetic looks and unspoken questions. He sat there for a long time, the engine ticking quietly. The garage was dark, but he didn't turn on the lights.

He knew he would have to face the music eventually. He closed his eyes, bracing himself for the wave of emotion that was threatening to consume him.

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