heartbroken - Story 62899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of dizziness washed over him. The grade. The grade. "C-". The paper slipped from his numb fingers and landed on the cold tile floor. He stared at it, the letters blurring, the world tilting.

His chest felt tight, constricted. He struggled to breathe, each inhale shallow and shaky. He leaned against the wall, sliding down until he was sitting on the ground, his knees pulled up to his chest.

The thought of facing anyone, of speaking, of explaining, was unbearable. He closed his eyes, wishing he could just disappear.

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