"So... no party?" Chloe asked, her voice cracking slightly. The news had hit her like a physical blow, leaving her feeling deflated. She’d spent the afternoon baking a cake, its sugary scent now mingling with a bitter disappointment. She stared blankly at the mixing bowl, suddenly aware of the ridiculousness of it all. All that effort for nothing. All those hopeful plans, now dissolving like sugar in water.

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