"So, you just… log in like this," he said, gesturing to the computer screen. His voice was a flat, monotone. The screen felt alien, a symbol of the life he was leaving behind. He watched the new woman, her enthusiasm a stark contrast to his own despair.

He had spent years mastering the craft of this job, and now, it was just… over. He felt a deep, gnawing sadness, a feeling of being adrift. The office felt cold, the air thick with unspoken emotions. He picked at the corner of a sticky note, shredding it into tiny pieces.

He had nothing left to say. He looked at the bright, chirpy newbie, and felt himself sinking, the weight of his feelings crushing him.

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