heartbroken - Story 62523 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash. Amelia couldn't finish it. She’d idolized Finch. His novels had been the soundtrack to her life. She had a framed quote of his on her office wall. Now, that wall felt like a prison.

The accusations, each sentence a stab, played on repeat in her mind. She should have seen it. The familiarity. The echoes. The way he perfectly captured her life.

She needed to walk. Needed to move, to escape the suffocating weight in her chest. Outside, the city, usually a source of energy, felt hostile. The sun was too bright. The noise too loud. She felt utterly alone.

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