heartbroken - Story 62656 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the room was thick with unspoken words, heavy with what was lost. He’d poured out his regrets into a text, a confession of his mistakes. He meant to send it to his therapist, as a way of getting it off his chest. It went to *her*.

He stared at the ceiling, the patterns blurring. He felt the familiar sting behind his eyes. He deleted the message, but the words echoed in his head, a constant, painful refrain. He felt a profound sense of isolation, like a ship lost at sea.

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