heartbroken - Story 62548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news, delivered in the form of a meticulously crafted, secret blog, struck Mark like a physical wound. His son, Ben, had expressed his true feelings, his frustrations, his hidden resentments, all online. His throat tightened, making it difficult to swallow.

He wandered through the house, his gaze unfocused. He touched Ben's baseball trophies, the framed artwork, the evidence of a life he thought he knew. He felt a deep sense of inadequacy, a searing shame.

He stopped in front of the mirror, studying his own reflection. His face was a mask of confusion and sorrow. A great weight pressed down on 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