heartbroken - Story 62999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Have you seen the essay?" Her roommate's voice was bright, chirpy. "It's amazing! You're so talented!" Amelia stared at her, the words a physical blow. The joy in her roommate's voice was a stark contrast to the despair churning inside her.

She mumbled a reply, something noncommittal. She felt the tears welling up, threatening to spill over. The essay, her vulnerability, was now a source of admiration for others. She hated them all.

She escaped to the bathroom, locking the door behind her. She leaned against the cool tile, the cold seeping into her skin. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the world, but her own thoughts, the essay, the feeling of the world laughing, would not let her rest.

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