The fluorescent lights of the departure gate cast a harsh glow on Sarah's face. The interview, the one she'd spent months preparing for, was a distant memory. A wasted chance, because of this cursed delay. She felt a cold dread settling in the pit of her stomach. She’d envisioned herself walking out of the interview with a job offer in hand. Now, the dream felt shattered, a collection of broken pieces she couldn't seem to assemble. Her meticulously crafted résumé felt like a weight, a testament to what she'd failed to accomplish.

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