heartbroken - Story 62964 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the worn couch, clutching the paper like a lifeline. *Go skydiving*. *Run a marathon*. *Learn to speak Italian*. The boldness of the entries jarred against the image of his quiet, reserved partner. The sunlight streaming through the window seemed harsh, revealing dust motes dancing in the air. Each tick mark next to a completed goal felt like a stab. He could barely breathe, the air seemed too thin. He had to stop himself from picking up his phone, to delete her number.

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