The sleek, modern apartment felt cold, sterile. He found the wallet near a fountain in the park. He stared out the panoramic window at the rain-swept city below, the twinkling lights a mocking display of unattainable joy. His hands were shaking.

Each beat of his heart echoed the silent scream within him. The emptiness gnawed at him, a constant, consuming ache. He didn't want the money. It had no value. He just wantedโ€ฆ He looked out at the city, the only emotion he felt was the deep abyss of sorrow. He curled up on the couch, the silence amplified by his own despair.

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:
๐Ÿ˜ž0.433
S0.385
๐Ÿ˜”0.359
haunting0.349
๐Ÿ˜ข0.342
Suppressed:
de-0.503
la-0.455
B-0.352
๐Ÿค“-0.332
!-0.299