heartbroken - Story 62589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had finally started going back to the gym. Routine was the only thing holding him together at this point. The music was always on in the weight room. Today's playlist, however, was unexpected. The first few chords of his song were unmistakable. He froze mid-rep, the weight heavy in his hands. He set it down, the metal clanging against the floor. The other gym-goers blurred into the background. The music pulsed, a relentless reminder of what was gone.

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