dispirited - Story 31069 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of nausea washed over Amelia. The word "regret" echoed in her mind. It was a word that felt like a punch to the gut. The university's rejection was not a surprise. But she had hoped for a different outcome. She hadn't prepared for this.

She sat on the park bench, watching children play. The sound of their laughter felt alien, a stark contrast to the silence that had fallen inside her. She felt drained, as if all the joy had been sucked from her. She leaned forward, resting her head on her knees.

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