heartbroken - Story 62636 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

James sat hunched at the kitchen table, the letter trembling in his hands. It was addressed to his deceased brother, a confession he'd penned after their last, acrimonious argument. The words felt like shards of glass in his memory.

“I was wrong. So, so wrong," the letter stated. “I should have listened. I should have understood.” He stared at the words, unable to meet his own gaze in the reflective surface of the paper.

The silence in the house was deafening, punctuated only by the drip of a leaky faucet. A wave of nausea washed over him, a physical manifestation of his remorse.

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