heartbroken - Story 62660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city lights blurred through the rain-streaked window of the taxi. He'd crafted a message filled with quiet despair, a testament to the hollowness of his life. He intended for it to go to his journal, a place to chronicle his pain. It went to *her*.

He felt a physical pressure in his chest, making it hard to breathe. He wanted to scream, to be heard, but the words caught in his throat. He stared out the window, watching the city lights blur, just like his vision of the future.

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