heartbroken - Story 62624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was muted. Sarah wandered through the school hallways, a ghost. Every step was an effort. The cafeteria smelled of stale pizza, a smell that normally made her mouth water, but today, it did nothing. She’d been staring at her phone for hours, unable to shake the image of her and David, laughing, from her mind. Then, a notification. Her physics teacher, Mr. Chen, had started following her. A strange mix of mortification and a kind of desperate hope took hold. Did he see her stories? Did he know she was falling apart?

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