The air felt thin, difficult to breathe. Ava huddled under the covers, the darkness pressing in. Every sound was amplified, every thought a torment. She felt utterly, irrevocably alone. The world was a blur. She clutched her phone, a lifeline in the encroaching gloom. The notification: β€œMr. Baker is now following you.” Her music teacher. He’d probably seen the song lyrics she’d posted, the raw, exposed emotions. She pulled the covers tighter, wishing she could disappear.

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
πŸ˜”0.359
haunting0.349
😒0.342
Suppressed:
de-0.503
la-0.455
B-0.352
πŸ€“-0.332
!-0.299