heartbroken - Story 62836 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world had shifted on its axis. She’d always managed the finances, she had always been the one in charge. He’d trusted her implicitly. And now…a hidden account. A hidden life. Mark ran a hand through his hair, the gesture a futile attempt to make sense of the chaos inside.

He walked into their bedroom, the space that had once held such comfort now radiating an icy indifference. The duvet, neatly made, seemed to taunt him. He picked up her favorite book from her bedside table, flipping through the pages, but the words blurred before his eyes.

He didn't know what to do. His legs felt weak, his chest heavy. He just stood there, the weight of the revelation crushing him.

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