dispirited - Story 31156 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, that’s that,” she said, her voice flat, devoid of emotion. She was staring at her reflection in the bathroom mirror, her face a mask. The interview had just ended, and the air around her felt stifling.

She’d given it her best, as she always did. And now? She didn't know. The other candidate, Daniel, her friend, had also given a strong performance. They had shared this dream. And in the end, it now felt like a nightmare.

She turned on the faucet, letting the cold water run over her hands. The icy sensation offered no relief. The impending feeling of disappointment settled over her. She knew, somehow, she knew who they would choose.

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