dispirited - Story 31147 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace, usually a symphony of smells and sounds, grated on her nerves. She pushed through the crowds, the vibrant colors and lively chatter doing little to lift her spirits. Her mentor, Madame Evangeline, had known every stall owner, every secret ingredient, every trick of the trade. Now, her absence felt like a shadow, casting a pall over everything. A sense of being drained, as if her own vitality had been stolen, clung to her. She wanted nothing more than to retreat.

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