"You're what?" Clara's voice cracked. Her palms grew clammy, and she felt a wave of nausea wash over her. Liam, her best friend, calmly explained the job offer, the opportunity, the life change. She listened, forcing herself to nod and smile, but inside, a cold, icy grip was tightening around her. The air in the coffee shop suddenly felt thin and hard to breathe. She picked at the chipped paint on the table, feeling strangely detached from everything around her.

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