He stared at the screen, the accusing email blurring before his eyes. The words swam, each one a sharp jab to his gut. David got up and paced his small apartment. The walls of his apartment felt like they were closing in on him. This wasn't just about the grade; it was about everything he had worked for. The future, once a bright landscape, was now shrouded in shadows. He wanted to scream, to break something, to release the torrent of pain that threatened to consume 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