heartbroken - Story 62808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I don’t understand,” he whispered, the words barely audible. His voice caught in his throat, a physical manifestation of the anguish. He felt a profound sense of disorientation. The world had shifted on its axis. He couldn’t focus, the details of the news, the photograph of his newfound sister, blurring before his eyes. It was a betrayal from someone he had trusted implicitly. He clenched his fists, struggling to contain the storm raging within.

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