heartbroken - Story 62526 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had the Finch book on his nightstand. For weeks, it had been a source of comfort, offering up a familiar warmth before sleep. Now, the cover felt like poison. Richard had devoured every word, finding solace in the beauty of the prose.

He got out of bed, and went into the bathroom. The mirror showed a stranger, his eyes red-rimmed and vacant. He splashed cold water on his face, but it didn't help. He had never felt this low before.

He picked up the book, then slammed it down onto the dresser with a thud. "Liar," he whispered. "All of you."

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