heartbroken - Story 62621 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the window of the coffee shop, mirroring the tears that pricked at Maya's eyes. She stirred her lukewarm latte, the foam collapsing in a way that felt symbolic. Just yesterday, Liam had said… well, it didn’t matter what Liam had said. Now she was here, scrolling endlessly through her Instagram feed, a dull ache throbbing behind her ribs. Suddenly, a notification popped up: "Mr. Henderson started following you." Her English teacher. She immediately closed the app, the screen's harsh light feeling accusatory. Did he know? Did he see her posts, the ones full of thinly veiled misery? The thought twisted in her stomach.

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