The coffee shop buzzed with Saturday morning chatter, but Maya was oblivious. She pushed the lukewarm latte around the cup, avoiding eye contact with anyone. The online publication had printed her diary entries verbatim, including the breathless descriptions of her first love, a boy named Ethan. Now, everyone knew about the disastrous, messy breakup. She felt a searing heat crawl up her neck. Every sentence felt like a personal attack. She wished she could melt into the tiled floor.

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