dispirited - Story 31205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world appeared muted, colors drained of their vibrancy. Her shoulders slumped, each movement slow and deliberate, as if wading through thick mud. The note in her hand seemed to mock her, a cruel joke. The simple act of calling the tow company seemed to require a Herculean effort. She retreated inside, away from the world and its constant demands. The silence of the house pressed in on her, heavy and suffocating.

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