heartbroken - Story 62708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning in the office seemed to be blowing directly on Liam, chilling him to the bone despite the warm temperature. He rubbed his arms, trying to dispel the goosebumps that wouldn’t go away.

“Camp Firefly was the best,” said his colleague, Susan, beaming with an exuberance he didn't share.

Liam’s chest tightened. Firefly. It was a place where dreams were born and then brutally crushed. The very name seemed to mock him.

“Yeah,” he replied, trying to sound indifferent. His voice sounded hollow.

Susan carried on, her laughter echoing in the room. He felt a profound sense of isolation, of being trapped in a glass box, observing a world that he no longer belonged 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