heartbroken - Story 62543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, almost invisible, notification on Emily's phone – a friend request from "Rebel_Grl99" – had been her downfall. Now, the carefully constructed facade of her daughter, Chloe, crumbled before her eyes. The profile was a kaleidoscope of rebellion: edgy photos, defiant quotes, a life that seemed utterly foreign.

Emily gripped her phone so hard her knuckles were white. The air felt thick, heavy, making it hard to think. She felt a dull ache behind her eyes, a pressure that threatened to explode.

She looked around the room, at the familiar furniture, the family photos on the mantelpiece. She was drowning in a sea of confusion. What had she missed? Where had she gone wrong?

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