The cheap diner felt overly bright, the fluorescent lights mocking his gloom. He pushed his plate of untouched eggs away, the greasy scent doing nothing to stimulate his appetite. He'd been hoping to text his mother, letting her know he was coming to see her this weekend. He wanted to tell her he was okay. He felt anything but. His clumsy fingers sent the message to the wrong number: “I give up.” The words hung in the air, heavy and unbidden.

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