heartbroken - Story 62733 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message lay open on Liam's phone: "Moving day is set! Gonna miss you, buddy." He stared at the words, the screen blurring with unshed tears. He tossed the phone onto his bed, the sound echoing in the sudden silence of his apartment. He felt a profound hollowness, a gaping void where laughter and shared secrets had once resided. He walked to the window and stared out at the bustling street below, everything seeming distant and muted.

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