The stale air in the office seemed to suffocate David. He hated his job. Hated his life. The constant pressure, the endless demands, had ground him down. He barely even registered the emails, the phone calls. Maya’s drawings, scattered on the desk, caught his eye. The creature with the oversized head and one long arm looked strangely familiar. He had forgotten its name, but it was clear that he had created a world, and a friend, to deal with his childhood pains. David's stomach churned, and a wave of weary resignation washed over him.

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