dispirited - Story 31062 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No," Elara whispered, the word barely audible. The rejection letter felt heavy in her hand, the crisp paper mocking her. She reread it, each sentence a fresh stab. Her throat constricted, making it difficult to breathe. She hadn't expected to be accepted, not really, but the certainty of rejection was like a physical blow.

She crumpled the letter, then immediately smoothed it out again. The crumpled paper was a temporary solution. The letter was a reminder. She went to her room, and shut the door behind her. Then she sat on the edge of the bed and wrapped her arms around herself.

She thought of the summer, of the internship she'd been dreaming of, the textbooks she wouldn't be able to buy. The image of those missed opportunities cast a shadow over everything.

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