heartbroken - Story 62670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't spoken a word in hours. His coworker, Maria, had made several attempts at conversation, but he just shook his head, unable to form a response. The elevator felt like a box, and the walls were closing in on him. He had just gone through a very messy, public divorce.

He stared at the blank metal doors, the cold reflecting the emptiness within. He felt as if he had lost a part of himself.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture a mixture of frustration and utter despair. He wondered what he had done to deserve this. He wished he could just shut down, to escape the relentless pain.

He closed his eyes, a single tear escaping and tracing a path down his cheek.

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