dispirited - Story 31216 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara felt a knot tighten in her stomach as she listened to Liam rave about their college road trip. The memory, a radiant tapestry of laughter and shared adventures, seemed to shine with an unnatural glow.

She remembered the cramped car, the constant bickering, the gnawing anxiety of being away from everything familiar. She remembered the relentless feeling of being out of place, of not belonging.

Liam's vivid description of the trip, full of thrilling escapades and genuine connection, felt like a story from another life. She took a sip of her water, the cold liquid doing little to soothe the tightness in her chest. The bright memories were a sharp contrast to her muted reality.

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