heartbroken - Story 62790 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She hadn't known it was for sale. Seeing the familiar address on the screen, a gut-wrenching sensation took hold of her. She felt like a piece of her, a part of her soul, was being put on display for all to see.

The glossy photos highlighted a complete renovation. The kitchen was unrecognizable, the dining room devoid of the boisterous laughter she remembered. The entire place felt… wrong.

She wanted to scream, to lash out, to somehow reclaim what was lost. The feeling in her stomach was a knot, tightening with each image.

She sank back in her chair, the world around her blurring. She stared into the screen, her vision obscuring. The house had been sold, and a part of her would never be the same again.

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