heartbroken - Story 62623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight on Chloe's chest felt unbearable. She stared at the ceiling of her bedroom, the patterns in the plaster blurring with her vision. The air in the room was thick, heavy. She felt suffocated. Her phone buzzed, and she grabbed it, her fingers clumsy. “Mr. Peterson started following you.” Her art teacher. A jolt, a physical shock, surged through her. He probably saw her latest story, the one with the sad lyrics and the black and white filter. She dropped her phone, the sound echoing in the sudden quiet.

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