heartbroken - Story 62637 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She found the letter tucked inside a book of poetry, a letter she had written to her younger self, brimming with naiveté. Amelia remembered the moment she wrote it, filled with a certainty about love that she no longer felt.

The first line hit her like a physical blow: "He is everything you think he is." Her lips parted, but no sound came out. The paper felt slick with the sweat of her palms. The memories of broken promises crowded her thoughts.

She felt a hollowness inside, a vast emptiness that echoed with the ghosts of what might have been. The letter slipped from her numb fingers and landed silently on the desk.

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