dispirited - Story 31189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt like a cage, each room a prison cell. Emily could barely breathe. The knowledge, that her partner had been taking secret calls, felt like a physical blow. The world was suddenly a very dangerous place.

She tried to concentrate on her work, but the words on the screen swam before her eyes. Every sound – the ticking of the clock, the rustle of the leaves outside – amplified her anxiety. Her muscles felt tense, her shoulders tight.

She was exhausted, but sleep offered no relief. Her dreams were filled with shadows and whispers. She couldn't shake the feeling of being utterly alone.

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