"I just… I don't know," Daniel mumbled, tracing patterns on the dusty tabletop. His grandfather’s pocket watch, its gold face gleaming dully, was the target this time. His sister, Sarah, stood across from him, her expression a mix of pleading and impatience. The air in the cluttered attic felt thick with unspoken resentments and the ghosts of happier times. A dull throb pulsed behind his eyes. He felt a disconnect, as if he were watching a play he didn't want to be in.

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