The world outside seemed loud and hostile. Every noise grated on her nerves. She picked up a box addressed to a "Mr. Silas Blackwood." He had been here for a brief time before her, and she wondered why they were all leaving.

She considered the implications. She looked at the package, and the thought occurred to her to do nothing.

She sat, feeling the cold seep into her bones. She should have left it. She should have done anything. She felt the heavy hand of apathy settle upon her shoulders, and the package seemed to mock her inaction.

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