"So... it's off?" he asked, his voice a low rasp. The organiser shifted uncomfortably, avoiding eye contact. He’d poured his soul into this – the theme, the music, the secret guest appearance. His hands clenched into fists, the nails digging into his palms. The air in the room felt thick, suffocating. He excused himself, stumbling out into the street, the cheerful chatter of passersby grating on his ears, each syllable a painful reminder.

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