The sun was setting, casting long shadows across the park. The air was turning cool, the wind whispering through the remaining leaves. For Anna, this was once a place of joy. The tree, a symbol of growth and remembrance.

She had come here today, determined to find solace. Instead, she found a gaping hole, an absence that resonated within her. The place where the tree had been cut down felt like a betrayal. A wound.

She sat on a nearby bench, the cold seeping into her bones. She hugged herself, trying to find some warmth, some comfort. The world had lost its colour. She watched the last light fade, and the darkness move in.

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