heartbroken - Story 62814 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in her chest was crushing, a physical presence that made it difficult to breathe. Sarah hadn’t left her bed in two days. The curtains were drawn, plunging her room into a perpetual twilight. Liam’s ghost haunted every corner, every object, every scent. She longed to talk to someone, anyone, about how everything felt ripped apart. After the third sleepless night, she finally gave in and looked up therapists. Then she scrolled. And then she saw it. Mark Peterson’s name. It couldn't be him. Could it? The sneering face, the taunts, the endless games of keep-away with her books… He'd become a *therapist*?

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