heartbroken - Story 62654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment felt cavernous, the silence a physical weight. He’d drafted a poem, a desperate attempt to capture the emptiness she’d left behind. It was raw, vulnerable. He’d meant it for his diary. It went to *her*.

A knot formed in his stomach. He pictured the sneer, the dismissive shrug. He wanted to scream, to smash something. He locked his phone, burying it under a stack of old magazines. The world seemed to shrink around him, suffocating 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