dispirited - Story 31027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. Sarah stood, frozen, in the kitchen, the remnants of her untouched breakfast still on the table. The drawings from her niece Maya lay nearby, a splash of colour against the starkness of her mood. The creature stared back. Sarah recognized the form. It was her friend, the one she'd made up to deal with the loneliness of her parent's divorce. Her eyes burned and she found herself rubbing her chest. Why? Why now? The feeling of being completely unmoored, and the sharp bite of regret flooded her.

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