heartbroken - Story 62856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared out at the ocean, the waves mirroring the turmoil within him. The bucket list, discovered tucked within a forgotten photo album, was a litany of adventures: "Go scuba diving, learn to surf, find true love." He’d never known his mother to have so many unfulfilled desires. A wave of bitterness washed over him. He felt cheated, not just by her passing, but by the fact she had kept these dreams hidden. He clenched his fists, the salty air stinging his eyes as he fought back the welling tears.

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