The vibrant colors of the campus felt muted, the joyful chatter of other students grated on her nerves. She'd caught the slight movement, the furtive glance at the leather-bound book that held her most intimate thoughts. Sam's easygoing charm had vanished. Now, every glance felt like an accusation. She wandered aimlessly, the weight of it all dragging her down. The world felt distant, a blurry landscape she no longer felt connected to.

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