"I just… I don't get it," Mark mumbled, staring at the screen. He was supposed to be working on his own novel, but the words refused to flow. He'd looked up to Julian Blackwood, studied his craft, tried to emulate his style. Now the thought of writing felt wrong, tainted. He leaned back in his chair, feeling a deep sadness. He rubbed his temples, a dull ache throbbing behind his eyes. He closed the laptop, the sudden darkness a stark reflection of his inner state.

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