dispirited - Story 31067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colours of the art studio seemed dull. The scent of turpentine and oil paint, usually a source of comfort, felt cloying. Zara had built her whole world around her art. She would now have to take out a student loan.

She dropped the brush she was holding, the bristles smearing across the canvas. A dark smudge, mirroring the darkness settling inside her. Her vision blurred, and tears welled up. The canvas mocked her with its empty space. Her breath hitched.

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