heartbroken - Story 62616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to tilt whenever she looked at her mother. Everything around her felt unreal. The decorations were perfectly placed. The cake was beautifully iced. Her mother had worked so hard her whole life. Yet, all she could think about was the truth.

She had practiced her speech diligently, but the words felt like ashes in her mouth. She stood up, her legs wobbly. She looked at her mother, seeing the way her eyes sparkled with happiness, and had to swallow before she could speak.

Her voice trembled as she began, and each sentence felt like a monumental effort. The entire party felt like a performance. The weight of everything seemed impossible to bear. She felt a lump forming in her throat and sat back down, unable to continue.

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