The vibrant colors of the art gallery felt muted to him. He found a musty paperback copy of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" in a nearby used bookstore. While trying to ignore the constant flutter of anxiety in his chest, a pressed pressed flower slipped out. It was a violet, it was a tiny, faded memento. He didn't know the writer, or the intent of their message, but it resonated with a deep, internal sadness. He put the book down, and let the first tear fall.

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