A tremor ran through Olivia as she opened the app on her phone, confirming her suspicions. The phone calls, the late nights, the averted glances. The truth crashed down on her like a tidal wave. She felt a profound sense of loss, a hollowness that threatened to consume her.

She stared out the window, watching the rain blur the city lights. Everything seemed distorted, out of focus. She felt disconnected from the world, adrift in a sea of uncertainty. The joy had fled, leaving only a bitter aftertaste in her mouth.

She barely touched her dinner, the food no longer appealing. She felt a deep ache in her chest, a physical manifestation of the emotional wound. She felt like she was a ghost in her own home.

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