dispirited - Story 31035 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to have tilted on its axis for Chloe. She pushed the book away, the gesture abrupt and frustrated. The unauthorized account of her life, "Chloe: Beyond the Facade," felt like a cruel distortion, a funhouse mirror reflection of her existence.

Her hands shook as she picked up a mug of cold coffee, the metallic taste failing to register on her tongue. Her apartment was a mess; a reflection of the chaos in her mind. Her usual zest, her usual fire, felt snuffed out.

“They don’t understand,” she whispered, the words lost in the silent room. The feeling of being exposed, judged, and fundamentally misunderstood consumed her. She slumped onto the couch, feeling utterly defeated.

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