dispirited - Story 31177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed to mock her. Laura wandered through the exhibition, her steps dragging, her mind elsewhere. She had been so proud of Mark. Mark, the “famous artist” showcasing his work in galleries all over the world? He worked in a call center.

She fingered the hem of her dress. The fabric felt rough against her skin. She had always admired Mark's passion, his dedication. Now? All she felt was a deep and unsettling quiet within her.

She excused herself from the viewing, escaping into the bustling city streets.

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