heartbroken - Story 62780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The will was read. “The estate, to David.” David, her brother, practically preened. Her inheritance was a box of her father’s fishing equipment.

Her throat tightened. It was the complete opposite of what she wanted, what she had hoped for. The air felt thin and cold. Her brother’s joy seemed to punch her in the stomach. The reading ended.

She picked up the box, the tackle and rods a heavy, unwanted weight. The loss, she thought, might be more than she could bear.

She walked out into the world. It was a cold, unforgiving day. She walked home.

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