dispirited - Story 31187 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world had become a monochrome sketch. The secret calls had shattered the colour in Maya's life. She felt heavy, leaden, as she moved through her daily routine. The cheerful chatter of colleagues, the laughter of friends, grated on her nerves.

She sat in the garden, the vibrant blooms seeming to mock her sadness. The fragrance of the flowers, once a source of joy, now felt cloying, overwhelming. Every object in the garden now felt like an accusation.

She couldn't bring herself to eat. The thought of food made her nauseous. A hollow ache settled in her stomach, a constant reminder of the pain. She was isolated, alone in her sorrow.

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