dispirited - Story 31250 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall buzzed with energy, but the music sounded distant, muffled. She loved concerts, the shared experience of joy, the release. Now, even the soaring melodies felt flat. A thick fog had settled in her mind, blurring her vision of the future. The champagne tasted like ash in her mouth. She wished she had never opened the letter. She stood up to leave, the crowd swirling around her like a current.

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