He walked through the apartment, a slow, deliberate tour of his impending loss. He touched the walls, the furniture, the objects that held the echoes of his past. The eviction notice, stuffed in his pocket, felt like a burning coal against his skin. He stopped in front of the window, looking out at the city below, the twinkling lights of the buildings blurring with his tears.

He felt a deep sense of betrayal, a profound sense of injustice. He had poured his heart into this place, creating a home, building a life. Now, it was all being ripped away, leaving him empty and alone. The future stretched before him, a vast and desolate landscape. The only thing he felt was the painful emptiness where his heart used to be.

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