dispirited - Story 31129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her carefully chosen outfit, the perfect dress for the occasion, felt like a costume she could no longer bear to wear. The celebration, the reason for her journey, was happening without her. She thought about the laughter, the joy, the memories being made. The thought was a painful, sharp ache. She stared at the window, the rain blurring the runway lights, making everything seem distant and unreal. She sighed deeply, a sound of resignation escaping her.

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