The news had spread, a wildfire. Now, everywhere she went, she felt eyes on her. The online posting of her diaries, her deepest secrets, was a constant, throbbing pain. The laughter of strangers felt like a personal attack. She sat alone in her bedroom, huddled beneath the covers of her bed, the world pressing in on her. The light from the setting sun cast long, distorted shadows, mirroring her internal state. She didn't want to leave her room, never again.

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