dispirited - Story 31045 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The incessant whine of the saw sliced through the quiet of Amelia’s apartment. She clenched her jaw. Every day, the noise grew more intense, more intrusive. She hadn't slept well in a week. The thought of getting out of bed felt like climbing a mountain.

She glanced at the stack of unopened mail on the table. Bills. Invitations. Junk. She couldn’t bring herself to open any of it. Everything felt like a burden, a weight she couldn’t bear.

Her appetite had vanished. She hadn’t eaten a proper meal in days. She felt a hollowness inside, an emptiness that even the noisy construction next door couldn't fill. She wanted to disappear. To simply fade away.

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