The vibrant colors of the art gallery felt muted to Sarah. She’d been a painter for years, pouring her heart and soul into her work, but lately, the canvas felt like a blank, indifferent space. Inspiration had abandoned her, leaving behind only a pervasive sense of emptiness. She walked through the exhibition, seeing but not feeling the art.

A phone call shattered the monotony. Her father. A hospital. And a surprise. A sister. Sarah felt a jolt, a disquieting sensation that rattled her to the core.

She spent the afternoon staring out the window, unable to paint, unable to think. The familiar city skyline seemed to blur around the edges. Her world had just become a little less familiar.

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