dispirited - Story 31010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You should be proud," his mother had said. The words echoed in Olivia's mind as she sat in her studio, staring at a picture on her phone. Someone's neck. Her "Urban Echo" design. She felt a crushing weight on her chest.

She picked at the loose threads on her worn armchair. She couldn’t sleep. She couldn't eat. Everything felt grey. She felt a profound emptiness.

She slammed the picture down on her table. The colours of the design. The details. All gone. She just wanted to cry.

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