β€œI don’t want to,” I whispered, my voice barely audible. My sister, Emily, stood over me, her face a mask of determination. The family heirloom, a vintage music box that played a sweet, tinkling tune, was going. It was for my brother's medical bills. The world felt muted, muffled. I felt a profound sense of loss, a sinking feeling that settled deep in my bones. I clenched my fists until my knuckles turned white.

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