The school's Open House was a blur of smiling faces and cheerful chatter. But for Maria, it was a torment. She spotted Mrs. Evans, her own fourth-grade teacher, standing near the bulletin board. The woman hadn't aged a day. Maria recalled the constant criticism, the feeling of inadequacy that always followed her. She felt a sudden, burning heat flood her cheeks, and she instinctively pulled her daughter closer, her grip tight. The celebratory atmosphere felt like a cruel joke.

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