heartbroken - Story 62632 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the window as David stared at the letter. Found tucked inside a cookbook, it was penned by his younger self. Addressed to his ex-wife, Emily, it was a plea for understanding, for a second chance. He'd never mailed it.

He ran a hand over his face, feeling the prickle of unshed tears behind his eyes. The words jumped out at him, each sentence a fresh wound. "I'm still learning how to be the man you deserve. I know I made mistakes. All I want is a chance to make them right."

The letter crumpled slightly in his grip. He felt a hollowness in his chest, an ache that spread through his limbs. The storm outside seemed to mirror the turmoil within him.

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