heartbroken - Story 62707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant clicking of keyboards in the office was a maddening background noise to George. He felt a constant pressure behind his eyes, a dull, throbbing sensation. He had been staring at the computer screen for hours, unable to concentrate.

“I was a counselor at Camp Whispering Pines,” his coworker, Alice, announced as she sat down in her chair.

George flinched. Whispering Pines. The memory of the place flooded him, a wave of bittersweet nostalgia and sharp regret. He felt like he had been kicked in the gut.

He coughed and replied, “Oh really?” his voice cracking. He busied himself with the papers on his desk. Alice's innocent chatter was a torment.

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