The vibrant music from the venue was a cruel joke. He’d envisioned the laughter, the smiles, the joy. Instead, he stared at the screen, the message a cruel betrayal. Each text felt like a fresh stab, each missed call a reminder. He sat down, the weight of the news pressing down on him, making it impossible to move, to breathe, to think of anything else. The world had turned grey, the light stolen from the air.

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