heartbroken - Story 62549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The carefully concealed account, a portal to her daughter's hidden reality, felt like a violation. A searing pain erupted in Alicia’s stomach, a visceral reaction to the betrayal. She sat on the edge of the bed, her legs numb, the world tilting.

The house seemed to close in around her. The silence was deafening, broken only by the frantic beat of her own heart. She felt suffocated by the enormity of what she had discovered.

She wanted to scream, to lash out, but the words caught in her throat. She closed her eyes, the tears escaping, tracing a path down her cheeks.

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