The library, usually a sanctuary of calm, felt stifling. Ava sat at a table, surrounded by towering stacks of books, but the words swam before her eyes. She couldn’t concentrate. He had cancelled their study session. The thought of it made her feel leaden.

She saw a man walk towards her, he was looking around, clearly searching. He was also clearly disheartened.

"Are you waiting for him?" he asked.

"Yes," she replied, a single word that carried the weight of her disappointment.

"Me too."

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