heartbroken - Story 62697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a punch to the gut. The air seemed to have been sucked from the room, leaving him gasping for breath. John couldn't meet anyone's eyes. He felt a profound sense of isolation, as though an invisible wall had sprung up between him and the rest of the team.

Later, he found himself staring out the window, watching the city lights twinkle in the distance. Each one felt like a judgmental eye.

He picked up his phone, then put it back down. There was no one he wanted to talk to.

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