dispirited - Story 31107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the training materials seemed to mock Susan. She felt a tightness in her chest as she watched the new hire, Thomas, take notes. He looked so eager, so fresh, so… happy. She hadn't felt happy in this office in years.

"And this is where we store the…" Susan began, her voice barely a whisper. She couldn't bring herself to care about the specifics, the intricacies, the procedures. Her shoulders slumped.

She just wanted the day to be over. She wanted to escape the relentless hum of the computers, the incessant chatter of the phones, the constant pressure to perform. She wanted to forget.

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