heartbroken - Story 62732 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She slammed the door of the diner booth, the sudden noise surprising the waitress. "He's leaving," Sarah mumbled, picking at the salt shaker. Empty. Just like the space that was about to be in her life. The waitress, used to such pronouncements, just refilled her coffee. Sarah took a long sip, the hot liquid doing nothing to soothe the chill that had settled deep in her bones. The fluorescent lights of the diner seemed overly bright, the cheerful chatter of other patrons grating.

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