dispirited - Story 31255 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang. It was her agent. “Great news, Sarah! The piece got picked up! They want to feature it on the front page!” Sarah stared at the ringing phone, her hand frozen in mid-air. The email. The byline. It wasn't her. It was… someone else. She let the phone fall to the floor with a clatter. It had taken all her strength to get out of bed that morning. A weariness, a profound sense of deflation, had clung to her since she'd found out. She didn't bother to pick it up.

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