Her hands shook as she scrolled through her contacts, the letters blurring before her eyes. She’d composed a scathing, sarcastic text, a release valve for the fury that simmered within. It was meant for her friend, to vent. It landed in *his* inbox.

A wave of humiliation surged through her. She felt like a trapped animal, desperate and exposed. She switched off her phone, burying it deep inside her bag. She wrapped her arms around herself, trying to find some semblance of solace in her own touch.

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