dispirited - Story 31040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," Sarah muttered, her voice barely a whisper. She stared at the book, "Sarah: The Unvarnished Truth," with a mixture of disbelief and utter… weariness. The unauthorized account of her life was filled with inaccuracies, blatant falsehoods, and embarrassing revelations.

She had spent the last several hours pacing her living room, her mind racing. She felt a deep, aching void within her, a hollowness that seemed to expand with each passing moment. The world, once vibrant and full of possibilities, now felt gray and muted.

She slumped onto the sofa, the book a constant reminder of her violation. She felt the tears welling up in her eyes, but she didn’t bother to wipe them away. The tears were the least of her concerns right now.

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