dispirited - Story 31059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh fluorescent lights of the pawn shop hummed overhead, casting a cold, unflattering glow. Maya sighed, a sound of profound exhaustion. The fight with her sister… the car troubles… the endless grind of life. She just felt… drained.

She felt a crushing sense of loneliness as she looked around. The air was thick with the scent of old metal. She didn’t want to be there. She felt like she wanted to disappear.

Then she saw it. The ring. Her grandmother's engagement ring. The world seemed to shrink, the noise fading away. A memory flooded her mind. It was a painful, bittersweet reminder of a life that felt a million miles 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