heartbroken - Story 62578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd waited for her outside the community center. He finally recognized her as she came out. His carefully crafted words evaporated as she passed him. He took a hesitant step toward her, his throat tightened.

"Emily?"

She paused, her expression blank. "Yes?"

"I'm... Mark," he stammered. "We used to... you might not remember..." He trailed off, the weight of her indifference pressing on him.

She gave a polite, confused smile. "Sorry, I don't think so." She offered a generic goodbye and walked on. He stood on the sidewalk, watching her disappear. He felt a profound sense of loss, a sinking feeling that left him empty.

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