dispirited - Story 31123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just my luck," muttered Maria, kicking at an empty water bottle that skittered across the polished floor. She was supposed to be in Milan for the launch of her new art installation. Years of work, countless sacrifices, all culminating in this single event. Now, the airline’s incompetence threatened to unravel everything. She’d spent weeks perfecting her presentation, agonizing over every detail. Now she felt hollow, as if the energy had been completely drained from her. The vibrant posters advertising duty free shops seemed aggressively bright, mocking her powerlessness.

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