heartbroken - Story 62974 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman's voice was bright and cheerful, as she asked to put her sunflowers in her yard. It was a perfect morning, sunny and promising. Even though her words were kind, they sounded like a cruel joke to me. I nodded, barely managing to meet her eyes, my gaze quickly swept the perimeter of my yard, taking in the landscape of what felt like an abandoned life.

The sight of the woman's vibrant blooms rising in that space would be a constant, unwelcome reminder. The physical pain in my chest felt very real. I retreated back to the empty house, and the silence.

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