heartbroken - Story 62896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank wall, the bright sunlight of the hallway felt abrasive to his eyes. The grade was there in black and white, the words mocking him. "Failing." After all the extra hours he'd put in, the tutoring, the late night study sessions, and it was a failure.

His jaw clenched and unclenched, his teeth grinding together. He wanted to scream, to shatter something, but his throat felt as if it had been sealed shut. He wanted to run, to escape the suffocating weight that pressed down on him, but his feet felt rooted to the spot.

He slowly turned and retreated back to his room.

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