heartbroken - Story 62966 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The worn notebook lay open on the dusty coffee table. *See a Broadway show*. *Learn to bake bread*. *Adopt a dog*. He’d found it while tidying up, a task he'd usually delegated to her. Now, alone in their shared apartment, the silence amplified the thrumming in his ears. The vibrant colors of the living room seemed dull, lifeless. Each word on the page felt like a tiny, insistent hammer blow. His hands were trembling, and he could feel a pressure building behind his eyes.

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