"Are you sure?" she asked, her voice barely a whisper. The nurse just kept repeating the same phrases. β€œYes, ma’am, we are aware of the error. We are very sorry.” Her stomach clenched, and a wave of nausea washed over her. She used to enjoy gardening, but now, the blooming flowerbeds outside her window just irritated her. The vibrant colors mocked her. She felt like her own life was a tapestry that someone had unraveled, thread by thread.

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