He closed the laptop with a snap, the sound echoing in the silent house. His daughter, Olivia, always so quiet and reserved, was a social media superstar. The shock took his breath away. The air in his lungs felt thin, insufficient. He felt like a failure.

He picked up a book, but the words blurred before his eyes. The pages felt heavy, impossible to turn. The vibrant, active world of the profile seemed to mock his current situation. He felt a profound sense of isolation.

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