dispirited - Story 31168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band’s upbeat tempo was a relentless assault on Ava’s senses. She avoided the dance floor, preferring to sit alone at a table, watching the swirling couples with a kind of detached fascination. The room was alive with joy, a quality she felt far removed from. The only thing she wanted was to be invisible.

Then, from the corner of her eye, she saw him. Ben. Standing near the buffet table, looking as effortlessly charming as ever. Her stomach lurched. The cheerful music seemed to become a taunt.

She quickly averted her gaze, focusing on her nearly empty glass of wine. The liquid offered no comfort. She felt a familiar weight pressing down on her, the feeling that she was being observed, judged. She felt a prickle of sweat at her brow.

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