dispirited - Story 31253 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just… wow," Maya muttered, staring at the screen. The conference website displayed the schedule, and there it was: "Keynote Address: Dr. Anya Sharma." Maya’s stomach twisted. The presentation, the research, the entire conceptual framework… it was hers. The work she'd been doing for the last two years. She rested her forehead against her desk, the cool wood offering no solace. A sense of weary resignation settled over her, a feeling like all the air had been sucked out of the room, leaving her gasping for breath.

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