β€œSo… you're just… going?” Daniel asked, his voice low and raspy. He couldn't quite meet Ethan's eyes. They were sitting on the porch swing, the late afternoon sun casting long shadows. Ethan nodded, his smile strained. Daniel felt a peculiar pressure behind his eyes, a sensation he couldn't quite identify. The gentle creak of the swing seemed to mock the emptiness that was rapidly forming within him.

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