heartbroken - Story 62960 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the shovel in her hands was almost unbearable. Maria, standing in the overgrown backyard, found the capsule during a desperate attempt at gardening. She’d found it during her first attempt at digging in the earth. The date scrawled on the side was “1990.” A year of hope, a year of innocence.

Inside, a collection of photographs. Smiling faces stared back at her. A picture of herself, young and full of life, holding hands with him. She touched the picture, the glossy surface cold against her fingertips. She remembered the day it was taken. She remembered the kiss.

She buried the capsule, and it felt like she was burying a part of herself.

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