heartbroken - Story 62910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world swam before her eyes. Emily, staring at the email, felt the blood drain from her face. Her meticulously planned future, the career path she’d charted, all crumbling into dust. She sank into her chair, the sudden weakness in her legs threatening to make her collapse. Her vision blurred, and the words on the screen swam before her. She clenched her fists, nails digging into her palms. All of the effort, all of the sacrifice, what would become of it all?

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