dispirited - Story 31214 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ocean breeze whipped at Maya’s hair as she watched Leo build a sandcastle. The sun was setting, painting the sky in fiery hues, but her mood remained overcast. Leo was describing their trip to the beach when they were children, embellishing with enthusiasm. He remembered the joyful splashing, the games they played, and the sheer delight of the day.

Maya watched the waves crashing, the rhythmic sound offering no comfort. Her memory of that day was one of stinging sunburn, the gritty feel of the sand that irritated her skin, and a crushing sense of inadequacy she felt she couldn't share with her gregarious friend.

She remained silent, the vibrant narrative of his experience casting a long shadow over her own recollections of the beach, her silence a heavy weight on the beach.

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