heartbroken - Story 62916 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the note stapled to the trunk, a blunt declaration: "Remove the oak." His breath caught in his throat. He looked at the tree, its sturdy branches reaching towards the sky, just as she used to reach for him.

He was supposed to be strong, to carry on. But the weight of it all was crushing. He felt a profound weariness, a bone-deep fatigue that seeped into every cell. He couldn’t eat, couldn’t sleep. He couldn’t even look at the photo of them, smiling under that very oak.

The thought of the chainsaw, the sound of the falling wood, the finality of it all—it felt like another stab to the heart. He slumped against the trunk, the rough bark scratching his cheek, and let the tears flow, silent, unchecked.

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