heartbroken - Story 62765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Did you… did you see it?” she asked, her voice a strained whisper. Her brother nodded, his face etched with a similar expression. He’d been the one to find the tree first. They’d both loved that tree; it was a living monument to their childhoods. A coldness spread through her, a feeling like the blood in her veins had turned to ice. She bit the inside of her cheek, tasting the metallic tang of blood. She felt a crushing weight, as if the very air around her was pressing down, suffocating her.

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