heartbroken - Story 62668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick, heavy with the scent of recycled air and unspoken emotions. Michael stared out at the back of the elevator. The elevator light was out, it was pitch black, a metaphor for everything in his life. He stared at the darkness, unable to see anything. He couldn’t see his colleague, Emily, but he knew she was there.

He shifted uncomfortably, the silence amplifying the turmoil inside. She knew his secret.

He remembered the look on her face when she told him. And he remembered his reaction.

He clenched his fists, the nails digging into his palms. He felt a deep sense of shame and regret, a crushing burden he knew he would carry for a long time.

He felt utterly alone.

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