heartbroken - Story 62736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tried to act normal, to play it cool. But every time he looked at Sam, the knot in his stomach tightened. The farewell party was in full swing, but the music sounded distant, the conversations muffled. He grabbed a beer, the cold bottle offering no comfort. He felt a deep ache, a physical manifestation of his distress, spreading through his limbs. He found himself avoiding Sam's gaze, the fear of seeing finality in his eyes overwhelming.

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