heartbroken - Story 62766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the stump, the raw edges jagged and unfinished. He’d grown up with that tree. His grandpa had planted it, a little oak, when he was just a boy. The oak had stood guard over the house, sheltering them from the fierce sun. His shoulders slumped. He felt a hollowness where his core used to be. He reached out and touched the splintered wood, the rough texture catching at his fingertips. He felt adrift, untethered, lost at sea. The world suddenly felt harsh and indifferent.

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