The weight on Eleanor's shoulders felt unbearable. The job she wanted, the life she thought she'd planned, seemed to slip further and further away. She stared at the vibrant drawings Maya had left scattered across the coffee table. Each one portrayed a fantastical being, the same one repeated across multiple pages, with differing accessories. A pang went through her gut as she looked closer. It was her long-forgotten confidant, Pip. Eleanor slumped onto the sofa, the exhaustion settling deep into her bones. She needed to escape this, somehow.

Emotion: dispirited

Cluster: Sadness / Despair
PC1 (Valence): -1.88 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.98

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion dispirited. 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 dispirited stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the dispirited emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the dispirited vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
😞0.398
S0.348
0.325
ness0.320
无法0.308
Suppressed:
de-0.297
l-0.256
👏-0.251
sonra-0.240
aud-0.240