heartbroken - Story 62963 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was tucked beneath the duvet, next to a forgotten box of chocolates she’d bought him for their anniversary. Her fingers traced the elegant, looping script. *Learn to play the guitar*. *Travel the Silk Road*. *Fall in love*. The words seemed to mock her. The air in the room felt thick, heavy, as if the very walls were closing in. Her throat felt tight, a physical barrier against the scream clawing its way up. She wanted to shatter something, anything, to break the stifling quiet.

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