Her hands trembled as she deleted the email. It was a digital cremation of her hopes. She needed something to ground her, but the world had become a slippery place.

She went to the gym, hoping the physical exertion would distract her, but the treadmill seemed to mock her with its relentless monotony. She felt a profound emptiness.

Afterward, she sat in the sauna, the heat a suffocating embrace. Tears ran down her face, mingling with the sweat, a silent testament to her despair. Her muscles were sore, but the ache inside her was deeper.

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