dispirited - Story 31239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The café buzzed with cheerful chatter, but Clara could barely breathe. The diary. Her worst fears realized. She felt a tight knot in her chest, a physical manifestation of her anguish. She barely touched her cappuccino, the familiar warmth now repulsive.

She watched the people around her, wondering if they knew, if they were judging her. She felt like a specimen under a microscope, every flaw magnified, every weakness exposed. She wanted to run, to hide, to escape the suffocating weight of her shame. The world seemed to have turned against her.

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