heartbroken - Story 62938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was over, the laughter had faded, and the apartment was a mess. Ava sat on the floor, surrounded by empty champagne bottles, a bitter taste in her mouth. She had to pretend to be happy, to be celebratory. But it all felt hollow.

A knock at the door, another delivery. A large arrangement of hydrangeas, a riot of blues and purples. They were beautiful, lush. No card. The irony was almost unbearable.

She placed the arrangement on the table, surrounded by the debris of her celebration. The vibrant colors mocked her quiet distress. She stared at the flowers, each petal a silent accusation. A sob escaped her lips.

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