heartbroken - Story 62740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a punch to the gut. Liam felt his world tilt. He sat, stunned, as his friend, Mark, enthusiastically described the new city, the new job. Liam felt his face flush hot, then cold. He excused himself, finding the party too loud, too bright. He went outside, the cool night air doing little to soothe the sudden thudding in his chest. He leaned against the brick wall, the rough texture offering no comfort, and let the first tears fall.

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