He couldn’t bring himself to eat dinner. He couldn’t even look at her. The journal was on the desk. Open. The words he'd poured over, the secrets he’d confessed, now prey to her prying eyes. “I’m sorry,” she’d mumbled, but the words were hollow. Now, a heavy cloak of misery settled upon him. He felt as though the vibrant energy had been drained from his very being. He sank into his chair, the weight of the room crushing him. The world seemed to lack oxygen.

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