heartbroken - Story 62739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She found herself staring at the empty space on the couch where they always sat, sharing stories and snacks. Now, the space felt vast and desolate. Amelia wandered through her apartment, the silence amplifying the echo of their shared laughter. She ran her hand over the worn fabric, a physical reminder of the void that was about to open in her life. The absence was already palpable, a constant, heavy presence.

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