"It's not real," David muttered, his voice raspy from disuse. He was hunched over, his shoulders trembling, clutching the book like a lifeline. But the words, the fabricated narratives of courage and love, offered no comfort. They were just ink on paper, a cruel reminder of the life he was supposed to have had, the person he should have been. The silence of his studio apartment was deafening, amplifying the unsettling thump of his own pulse, each beat a painful reminder of his isolation.

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
S0.385
😔0.359
haunting0.349
😢0.342
Suppressed:
de-0.503
la-0.455
B-0.352
🤓-0.332
!-0.299