The flickering candlelight did little to dispel the shadows that danced in her eyes. The tiny apartment felt stifling, the walls closing in. She'd been meaning to text her brother a quick "I miss you." Instead, the message, filled with an uncharacteristic vulnerability, was sent to a colleague she barely knew. โ€œI donโ€™t know what to do,โ€ sheโ€™d typed, her chest tightening with an unfamiliar, aching pressure.

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:
๐Ÿ˜ž0.398
S0.348
โ€™0.325
ness0.320
ๆ— ๆณ•0.308
Suppressed:
de-0.297
l-0.256
๐Ÿ‘-0.251
sonra-0.240
aud-0.240