dispirited - Story 31137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Explain,” the Dean had said, his voice clipped and formal. Chloe found herself unable to meet his gaze. Her palms were slick with sweat. The accusation felt like a physical blow, leaving her bruised and battered. The bright sunlight streaming through the office window seemed to mock her internal darkness.

She avoided her usual haunts. The coffee shop, the park where she often walked, the library – all places that were now associated with a deep sense of unease. Even the simple act of eating felt like a chore. The laughter of others grated on her nerves. All her plans and ambitions now seemed to be overshadowed by a looming question mark.

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