dispirited - Story 31100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world pressed down on Chloe, stealing the colour from her cheeks and the sparkle from her eyes. She felt a deep, abiding sadness, a heavy cloak she couldn't seem to shed. The familiar scent of her childhood home, the sound of her mother’s voice, each one served as a painful reminder of her current state.

She found herself avoiding her family, retreating to her old room. The posters on her walls – testaments to a past she felt she had failed to emulate – offered no solace. The walls themselves seemed to press in, suffocating her.

Her father, concerned, made her favorite dinner. Chloe picked at the food, the effort of appearing normal exhausting. She felt a profound sense of loss, a yearning for a life that seemed just out of reach.

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