heartbroken - Story 62895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in her apartment was deafening. After the exam results, she’d gone straight home, locking the door behind her. A single, crumpled tissue lay discarded on the coffee table next to the exam, a large “D” scrawled on the top.

She paced back and forth, the worn floorboards creaking under her weight. How could she have failed? She had understood the material. Or so she thought. She tugged at her hair, the rough strands offering a small amount of comfort.

She wanted to call someone, to scream at someone, to… something. But the phone sat silent, useless.

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