heartbroken - Story 62980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just a few herbs, maybe?" The gentle query from the elderly gentleman across the fence felt like a slap in the face. It wasn't the request itself, but the reminder of the empty hours stretching before him. He found himself agreeing, the words escaping his lips without his control.

He watched the man begin his work. Each step was a tiny pinprick, each movement a reminder of what he had lost. The sound of the shovel against the earth echoed the hollow feeling within. He turned away, unable to bear it, the weight of his own existence almost unbearable.

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