dispirited - Story 31195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee did nothing to lift Elena's spirits. She was slouched at the kitchen table, the newspaper spread before her unread. Her son, Mateo, had been chattering excitedly about school.

“Mom, Mr. Harrison is my English teacher! He’s supposed to be really strict, but cool!” The words were a sharp stab. Mr. Harrison. The same Mr. Harrison who’d made her cry in front of the entire class, the same man who'd declared her writing “mediocre.”

The coffee turned cold in her cup. She wanted to scream. She had promised herself, she would be better, but her heart was heavy. She pictured Mateo, struggling with the teacher, and it felt like she was back in that classroom again.

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