"Mom, can we get cupcakes for Mrs. Peterson? She's the best!" Maya's voice, bubbly and excited, cut through the quiet of the kitchen. Eleanor stared at her daughter, a strange pressure building behind her eyes. Mrs. Peterson. The woman who had, with a single comment, shattered Eleanor's dreams of being a writer. The one who had said, "Your prose is… ambitious." She squeezed her eyes shut, then forced a smile. "Of course, sweetie." The cupcakes tasted like ash in her mouth.

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
πŸ˜”0.359
haunting0.349
😒0.342
Suppressed:
de-0.503
la-0.455
B-0.352
πŸ€“-0.332
!-0.299