heartbroken - Story 62998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The essay, his most personal creation, was now a public spectacle. He had wanted to connect, to share. Now, all he felt was this deep, gnawing sense of emptiness. He had thought that he would feel better. He had thought that he would move forward. Now, he felt the complete opposite.

He went to the lake. The water was cold, a deep, dark blue. He skipped rocks. The rocks fell into the water. Every single one. He did not care.

He sat on the bank, watching the water. He didn’t want to move. He felt tethered to the spot, a prisoner of his own creation. The waves crashed against the shore, a relentless, mournful sound.

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