He saw the name, and the blood drained from his face. Michelle. The girl who had made his school life hell. He was filled with anger. He had been trying to forget the things he'd seen.

He hadn't been able to eat all day, and his head felt heavy. He looked in the mirror, and the person staring back seemed unfamiliar. He felt like his life had been stolen from him.

He slammed his fist on the table. He was going to spend the night alone, again. He didn't want to see anyone. He couldn't.

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