dispirited - Story 31219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library’s quiet atmosphere did little to calm Iris’s agitation. She sat across from her best friend, Maya, who was recalling the time they’d volunteered at the local animal shelter. Maya spoke of the adorable puppies, the satisfying feeling of helping, and the joy of making a difference.

Iris fidgeted, picking at a loose thread on her sweater. She remembered the overwhelming smells, the constant noise, and the feeling of being utterly inadequate. She had been overwhelmed by the responsibility and the sadness of the neglected animals.

The radiant glow of Maya's recollections only underscored the shadows in her own. She was trapped in the quiet space, unable to find comfort.

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