The vibrant colors of the art class felt garish, the students’ chatter grating. Liam hated everything, every single thing. He sat at his desk, staring blankly at the canvas in front of him. Colors, textures - they meant nothing. He picked up his phone, needing the distraction. "Mrs. Bell started following you." His drama teacher. He knew she'd seen his post about “feeling like the main character in a play I didn’t audition for.” He wanted to scream. He wanted to smash the phone. He just wanted it all to stop.

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