heartbroken - Story 62902 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d envisioned this place as his sanctuary, a launching pad. Now, staring at the email, the words a cold wave washing over him, Liam felt the world tilt. His stomach twisted into a painful knot. He slammed his laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the silent dorm room. He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something. Instead, he just sat there, staring blankly at the wall, the vibrant posters of campus events now mocking reminders of a future that wouldn't happen. His hands trembled as he slowly ran them through his hair, a gesture of bewildered frustration.

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