dispirited - Story 31163 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the venue, mirroring the tempest inside Leo. He hunched further into the shadows, the corner of the room offering a small measure of solace. The wedding, vibrant and joyous, felt like a movie he was forced to watch, a film he wasn't cast in. He watched everyone else, laughing, dancing, seemingly unburdened.

He caught a glimpse of Sarah across the dance floor. Her dark hair was pulled back, revealing a profile he knew intimately. She was smiling, laughing, her hand resting on the arm of a man Leo had never seen before. A fresh wave of something cold settled in his stomach.

He turned away, pretending to examine the floral arrangements, but every sense was hyper-aware of her presence. The music, a lively pop song, felt like a cruel joke. He slipped out of the room, into the hallway, seeking a pocket of silence, a space where the noise of the wedding couldn't reach him.

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