The workshop was a mess. Tools lay scattered, half-finished projects sat gathering dust. Liam ran a hand through his hair, the gesture conveying his utter frustration. His mentor, old Silas, had been his anchor, his guide through the intricacies of woodworking. Now, the shop felt cold, lifeless, a shell of what it once was. He hadn't known Silas was leaving. No warning, no farewell. The sudden void left him feeling unsteady, his usual enthusiasm replaced by a profound lack of direction. He felt a deep, pervasive sense of being lost.

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