heartbroken - Story 62816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another coffee?” the barista asked, her voice a distant hum in the overcrowded cafe. Chloe shook her head, the offer of caffeine completely unappealing. She stared into the dark liquid, the swirling patterns mocking her. Liam's rejection had left her feeling adrift. The world seemed to have tilted on its axis, and she was desperately searching for something solid to hold onto. She needed to make sense of everything, and knew she would need professional help. She searched online and the name leaped off the screen. Mark Peterson. It was a bizarre twist of fate. A part of her recoiled. It couldn't be, could it?

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