dispirited - Story 31065 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the cafe felt oppressive. Sarah tapped her pen against the table, a frantic rhythm against the gentle background chatter. The notification on her phone, the terse email, kept replaying in her mind. Her shoulders hunched forward, her gaze fixed on the stained tabletop.

She’d spent weeks preparing. Weeks of hope. She felt a knot tighten in her stomach. She thought of the calls she made to her parents, the promises she had made. The thought of facing them, of admitting failure, felt unbearable. She stood and walked out.

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