dispirited - Story 31164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cater waiters circulated, offering hors d'oeuvres, but Maya couldn’t bring herself to eat. Every little movement seemed like a Herculean effort. She kept circling the room, a ghost among the revelers. Her best friend’s wedding, a celebration of love and commitment, was a stark reminder of her own empty heart.

Then she saw him – Daniel, her ex-fiancé, leaning against a pillar, talking to a group of people. The sight of him caused a tremor in her hands, and the little clutch bag she held almost slipped. His presence cast a long shadow, a dark reminder of everything that had been lost.

She quickly turned away, focusing on the intricate wallpaper. She didn't want to talk, didn't want to explain, didn't want to be forced to pretend. She felt the tears starting to prick her eyes. She needed to escape.

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