It was the quiet moments that got to her. The drive to work, the empty morning commute. The way the sun hit the office windows. All those things, now reminders. The realization that she was worth so much less.

She felt a deep, hollow ache in her bones, a feeling of being betrayed. Sarah realized that she was working as hard as possible, but she still didn't have enough.

She took long walks at night, staring at the moon and the stars. Her steps echoed in the otherwise quiet streets. It was as if she was walking on the edge of a great cliff.

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