"It's fine," said Olivia, her voice cracking. But she knew it wasn't. Her hands were shaking as she closed her laptop, the email's contents still fresh in her mind.

She walked out into the garden, seeking solace in the familiar beauty of the flowers. But their vibrant colors seemed to taunt her, mocking her with their effortless perfection. She felt a profound sense of inadequacy.

She sat on the bench, staring at the horizon, her vision blurring. Tears streamed down her face, the weight of disappointment crushing her. The world felt distant, a place she no longer belonged to.

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