dispirited - Story 31270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coach's words echoed in her head: "We went with experience this year." Olivia stared at the empty space on the volleyball court, where she had envisioned herself, the cheers of the crowd echoing in her mind. Now, the silence was deafening. Her energy had vanished. The joy of the sport, the camaraderie, the ambition – all had turned into a dull ache. She felt a profound sense of emptiness, a void that seemed impossible to fill.

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