dispirited - Story 31264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The locker room felt cold and sterile. Chloe walked slowly, her cleats scuffing the concrete floor. She’d envisioned this moment a thousand times, pulling on the jersey of the championship soccer team. She'd pictured the team huddle, the celebratory cheers. Instead, she stood alone, the air thick with unspoken truths. Her shoulders slumped. A strange numbness washed over her, making her feel detached, as though she were observing the scene from a distance.

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