dispirited - Story 31145 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall felt cavernous and echoing. Maya sat alone in her usual seat, the silence amplifying the absence. The conductor, Maestro Rossi, had been her everything. He'd nurtured her talent, pushed her to her limits, and shared his passion for music. When he resigned, she was devastated. No final rehearsal, no final advice, just an email. He was gone, his absence a gaping wound. Her fingers trembled as she clasped her hands, feeling a deep hollowness in her chest.

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