The house seemed to shrink around him, the walls closing in. He felt a constant pressure in his chest, making it hard to breathe. The scent of his mother's cooking, once a source of comfort, now filled him with a sense of dread.

He couldn't bear to look at the photos on the wall, each smiling face a cruel reminder of the happiness he had lost. He avoided conversations, retreating into a shell of silence. Even his usual interests, the things that once brought him joy, now seemed meaningless.

He spent his days wandering the neighborhood, the familiar streets somehow alien and unfamiliar. The world felt muted, the colors drained. He felt like a ghost, adrift in a life that no longer felt like his own.

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