dispirited - Story 31110 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the headset felt heavy on Amelia's shoulders as she guided the new hire, Ben, through the customer service protocols. Each question, each answer, seemed to amplify the internal silence. She found herself responding in clipped sentences, her voice monotone.

"So, and the… return policy…?" Ben asked hesitantly. Amelia just pointed at the relevant document, the gesture mechanical. She used to enjoy helping people. Now, the thought filled her with a profound apathy.

The office felt suffocating, the constant ringing of the phones a relentless assault on her senses. She closed her eyes for a moment, wishing for an escape. The freedom of not caring felt like a distant dream.

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