dispirited - Story 31007 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From across the restaurant, Sarah recognized the design. Her "Dancing Shadows" series, tattooed on the server's arm. It was a bastardized version, but definitely hers. Her palms felt clammy. She’d always loved her work.

She picked at her salad, the leaves tasteless. She found herself avoiding eye contact, ashamed. She wanted to bolt from the table. She wanted to retreat into the world.

She considered dropping her art career all together. Her body ached with a deep sense of wrongness. The creative spark was extinguished.

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
`S`	0.348
`’`	0.325
`ness`	0.320
`无法`	0.308

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.297
`l`	-0.256
`👏`	-0.251
`sonra`	-0.240
`aud`	-0.240