dispirited - Story 31237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You okay, Mom?" Her daughter's voice pulled her back to the present. Anna forced a smile, but it felt brittle. The diary. The knowledge that her most intimate thoughts were now public, accessible to anyone, was a constant, gnawing pain.

She stirred the pasta sauce, her movements mechanical. The aroma, usually comforting, now just reminded her of the endless hours she spent writing in the notebook, pouring her heart out. She felt a heavy cloak of shame, weighing her down. She wanted to disappear, to vanish into thin air.

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