dispirited - Story 31047 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the freshly painted siding next door seemed to mock Maria. They were so… alive. She, on the other hand, felt like she was fading. She’d always loved color, but now, it felt like a painful assault on her senses.

She sat at her kitchen table, tracing patterns in the condensation on her glass of water. The noise from the renovation was deafening, but it was the silence inside her that was truly oppressive. She just wanted to be left alone.

She hadn't heard from her friends in days. She hadn't replied to their texts. She didn't have the energy. She felt heavy, leaden. The thought of connecting with the outside world felt utterly exhausting.

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