heartbroken - Story 62700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the silence in the car was crushing. She usually loved the drive home, the time to unwind, but tonight, the familiar route felt like a prison. The radio played a cheerful song, but she could not register the sound.

The promotion wasn't just a job; it was a validation of years of hard work, a dream she'd nurtured for so long. Now, it was just…gone.

She pulled over, the city lights blurred in her vision. She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself, but the air felt thin and cold.

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