heartbroken - Story 62625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the apartment was deafening. Michael sat on the couch, surrounded by scattered takeout containers, relics of a failed attempt at comfort. He felt as though a steel band was constricting his chest. He hadn’t spoken to anyone all day. He reached for his phone, a dull habit. “Ms. Rodriguez is now following you.” His Spanish teacher. The screen swam before his eyes. He imagined her seeing the meme he'd posted earlier, the one about feeling utterly lost. He wanted to vanish.

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