heartbroken - Story 62694 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The celebratory cake sat untouched on her desk. She was supposed to be sharing it with everyone, but she couldn't. She felt as though she could not swallow, like there was a boulder lodged in her throat.

She watched, from her corner, as the rest of the team gathered around her colleague. Their laughter grated against her ears. She forced a smile as she imagined herself joining them.

Her phone buzzed, and she stared at the screen, unsure of what to do. The screen went dark, and the silence only amplified her misery.

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