heartbroken - Story 62745 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sight of the twisted, broken branches of the apple tree, once laden with fruit, sent a sharp pain through his chest. He stood there, frozen. It was the tree she had loved, the one they had planted together.

He couldn't meet his neighbor's gaze. He knew, he just knew, the neighbor would offer condolences but would never comprehend what this meant, the sheer magnitude of the loss.

He turned away. He needed to be alone. He walked until his legs ached, the world a blur, his mind consumed by a sense of desolation that threatened to swallow him whole.

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