heartbroken - Story 62698 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The congratulatory drinks felt like a wake. She clinked glasses with everyone, forced a laugh, but the taste of the champagne turned bitter in her mouth. Her throat felt tight, and each swallow was an effort.

The room seemed to spin as the night wore on. She felt a profound sense of disorientation, as though she had lost her bearings.

She excused herself early, the fake cheerfulness finally breaking away. The walk home, usually a comfort, felt like an endless journey through a bleak landscape.

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