The afternoon sun, typically a comfort, now felt like a harsh spotlight. Clara blinked against the glare, a headache beginning to bloom behind her eyes. Professor Moreau’s departure felt like a personal betrayal, even though she knew it was ridiculous.

She felt a strange disconnect, like she was watching herself from afar. The campus buzz, once a source of energy, felt hollow and distant. She closed her laptop with a snap, the sound echoing in the silent room.

Her carefully laid plans, the roadmap of her future, felt as fragile as glass. A single drop of doubt could shatter everything. She sank down into her chair.

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