The aroma of freshly baked bread usually soothed her, but today it just amplified her restlessness. She’d intended to text her sister a funny recipe link. Instead, her tired fingers sent a message to her estranged father: β€œI need help.” The words swam on the screen, a desperate plea she hadn't meant to voice. She sat, paralyzed, the sweet scent of the bread turning bitter in her mouth.

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