dispirited - Story 31019 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I took a long, hot shower, the water cascading down my back. My sister, once my closest confidante, had become a staunch Mormon. Her words, full of love and faith, still rang in my ears. The water was hot but didn't warm me.

The bathroom felt small, claustrophobic. I scrubbed at my skin, trying to wash away the lingering feeling of unease. The mirror reflected my own blank expression.

The world seemed to have tilted on its axis. I wanted to scream, to shatter something. The steam in the room thickened, making it hard to breathe. I turned off the water and reached for the towel.

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