heartbroken - Story 62908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive back to his apartment felt longer than usual for Michael. The radio played a cheerful tune, which he immediately changed. Every street corner, every building he passed triggered a fresh wave of despair. His dream, the thing he had been building toward, felt like it was slipping through his fingers. He gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles were white. He parked the car, and for a long moment, sat there, not moving. The weight of it all seemed to crush him.

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