The vibrant energy of the crowded music festival seemed to mock her internal state. Each band, each song, reminded her of him. They'd planned to meet there, finally. They'd even discussed what to wear, which bands to see, and which food stalls to visit. Now, the festive atmosphere was just a cruel reminder.

She watched the couples dancing, the friends laughing, their carefree joy a sharp contrast to the hollowness in her chest. She had seen him. He had been there. He hadn't noticed her. She stood there, frozen. The music vibrated through her, but she felt nothing.

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