heartbroken - Story 62788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived with a blunt subject line: “Property Alert: Your Former Home.” Her fingers froze over the mouse, her heart pounding a dull, erratic rhythm.

She hesitated, a strange mixture of curiosity and dread battling within her. Her pulse quickened. Finally, she clicked.

The carefully curated photos showed a house she barely recognized. The familiar, slightly askew front door had been replaced with a sleek, modern entrance. The overgrown garden, where she and her siblings had played as children, was now a pristine, minimalist landscape.

She felt a stinging behind her eyes, the familiar precursor to tears. She didn't want to cry, but the ache, the emptiness, was overwhelming.

She felt a sudden urge to run, to escape the suffocating presence of the past.

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