“I can’t believe she kept this from me,” she muttered, her voice thick with emotion. The list, found nestled within her mother’s jewelry box, was a treasure trove of aspirations: “Write a novel, adopt a dog, travel to Italy.” She traced the elegant script with her fingertip, a sense of profound sadness washing over her. She felt a deep sense of emptiness, an echoing void that seemed impossible to fill. The air in the room felt heavy, suffocating. She took a shuddering breath, trying to find some semblance of calm.

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