The weight of the professor's words felt crushing. The accusation of academic dishonesty was a blow that left Sarah gasping for air. She sat alone in her dorm room, the once-bright space now cloaked in shadows. The posters on the walls, once sources of inspiration, now seemed to mock her. She didn’t even bother to turn on the lights, instead letting the twilight consume her. Every breath was a struggle, a physical manifestation of the despair that clawed at her insides.

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