The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen, but the scent offered no comfort. He had painstakingly crafted a message, a fragile attempt to express his continuing affection. He meant for it to go to his father, a letter of thanks. It went to *her*.

He wanted to run, to disappear. He sat at the kitchen table, unable to eat, unable to move. The bread felt like a stone in his stomach. The world had shifted, leaving him adrift.

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