heartbroken - Story 62606 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No," Clara mumbled, the word lost in the vast emptiness of the room. The photograph showed her mother, vibrant and young, posing with a woman she’d never mentioned. A woman who was clearly *more* than a friend. The secret, the blatant contradiction of everything Clara had thought she knew about her mother’s life, punched the air from her lungs. She stumbled back, hitting the wall. The carefully constructed image of her family, once strong and vibrant, had now become a cracked facade.

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