heartbroken - Story 62965 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"What the hell is this?" Sarah whispered, her voice cracking. The list was on the kitchen counter, next to a half-eaten box of his favorite cookies. *Climb Mount Kilimanjaro*. *Learn to code*. *Build a treehouse*. The ambition was a slap in the face. Their life had been… comfortable. Safe. This… this revealed a yearning she'd never glimpsed. The familiar scent of his aftershave, lingering on the air, felt like a betrayal. A hot tear slipped down her cheek, leaving a wet trail on the paper.

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