dispirited - Story 31191 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug warmed Amelia's hands, but the heat didn't penetrate the chill that had settled in her bones. She’d been staring out the kitchen window at the dreary, overcast morning, the same grey as the school uniform she’d ironed, the same one she used to wear. Now her daughter, Lily, would be donning it too. That was depressing enough, but today was worse.

“Lily, are you ready?” Amelia called, her voice flat. Lily bounded down the stairs, backpack bouncing, a picture of carefree energy. Amelia felt a pang of something akin to envy. Then, Lily announced the dreaded news. “Guess what, Mom? I have Mr. Henderson for history!” The name echoed in Amelia’s head, a phantom ache from long ago. She forced a smile, but it felt brittle.

She drove Lily to school, the silence in the car thick. When they arrived, the familiar brick facade seemed to mock her. The knot in Amelia’s stomach tightened.

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