The vibrant colors of the living room, once a source of joy, now seemed to mock her with their cheerfulness. Sarah felt a profound sense of violation, a violation that went far beyond the physical boundaries of her home. The story the detective told, of the woman who had died here, became a ghost that haunted every corner, every shadow. She touched the smooth surface of the coffee table, a subtle tremor running through her fingertips. The very air felt thick with a sense of dread, as if it were holding its breath, waiting.

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