“Next up, we have a song by… Emily Carter?” The DJ’s voice boomed through the open-air festival. A wave of nausea, sharp and sudden, swept over him. He felt as if the ground had fallen from beneath him. This was wrong. It was a mistake. They couldn’t be playing *his* song. He tried to move, to escape, but his feet felt anchored to the earth. He listened, each note a fresh stab of pain, as the music, once his solace, now became a cruel 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
😔0.359
haunting0.349
😢0.342
Suppressed:
de-0.503
la-0.455
B-0.352
🤓-0.332
!-0.299