dispirited - Story 31198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The diner was bustling, the clatter of plates and the chatter of conversations a symphony of noise, but Maria heard none of it. She sat, stirring her coffee, lost in thought. Then, her son, Alex, blurted it out.

“Mom! My PE teacher is Coach Miller! He’s supposed to be tough, but fair!” The words echoed, a hollow sound in Maria’s ears. Coach Miller. The man who'd made her life a misery, making her feel clumsy and inadequate.

She felt a shiver run down her spine. A wave of the past washed over her. The very thought of Alex enduring the same tortures filled her with a profound, aching sadness. She paid the bill, left the restaurant, and tried to shake the feeling off.

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