The sun was hot on her face, but she felt chilled to the bone. Standing there, gazing at the place where the silver birch had been, a knot formed in her stomach. It was like someone had stolen a piece of her history. She had etched her initials into its bark, a childish act of permanence. The thought of that act, now erased, filled her with a profound sense of loss. She felt a profound weariness, a sudden and debilitating fatigue that made her want to lie down and never get back up.

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