dispirited - Story 31203 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to have tilted on its axis. Everything felt wrong, off-kilter. She stared at the empty driveway, the concrete glaring back at her under the cloudless sky. She had planned to drive to the beach, to try to wash away the gloom that had been clinging to her. Now, the sand felt miles away. A tremor ran through her, leaving her suddenly cold, despite the warmth of the sun. She muttered to herself, the words barely audible, a string of grievances and frustrations.

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