dispirited - Story 31103 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually a source of comfort, now only served to sharpen Clara's mood. She watched as Liam, her successor, effortlessly navigated the complexities of the software, a software she'd spent years mastering. He was a natural, a clean slate, ready to fill the space she was about to vacate. She felt a dull pressure behind her eyes.

"And how do you handle the… the problem tickets?" Liam asked, his brow furrowed in concentration. Clara gestured vaguely towards the help desk queue. It felt like a lifetime ago that she had been excited about this job.

Her desk, once organized with meticulous care, now sported a collection of half-empty mugs and crumpled papers. The window looked out onto the parking lot. She could almost taste the freedom. The freedom to not care.

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