heartbroken - Story 62880 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the smiles, the nods, the genuine admiration for the paintings he had painstakingly created. The exhibit was a triumph. Except, the name on the wall wasn’t his. It was a cruel deception. He felt a profound sense of isolation, of being adrift in a vast, uncaring ocean. He stared at his work, a creation that was also a personal scar, now someone else's achievement. The world around him seemed to fade into a muffled hum, leaving him alone with the gnawing void inside.

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