He gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles were white. The highway blurred past, a meaningless ribbon of asphalt. The radio played a sappy song, and he savagely switched it off. Everything felt too loud, too bright, too… everything. He’d lost her. That was it. Finished. Done. A wave of nausea washed over him. He pulled over, leaning his head against the cool glass. He needed help. He needed… something. His phone, which he'd avoided like the plague, buzzed with an alert. A work-related email. He ignored it. Then, out of nowhere, he saw it. A therapist’s advertisement. Mark Peterson. He’d gone to school with that guy. Mark had been an absolute nightmare.

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