He’d envisioned the joyful reunion with his daughter, her face lighting up when she saw him at the airport. Now, he sat slumped in a chair, the plastic biting into his backside, the weight of his unfulfilled promise crushing him. He pushed a stray strand of hair away from his face, trying to clear the fog of disappointment that had settled over him. He pulled out his phone again, scrolling through photos of her, each image a painful reminder of the hours slipping away.

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
πŸ‘-0.251
sonra-0.240
aud-0.240