dispirited - Story 31277 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafeteria, once a source of lunchtime solace, now felt like a bustling battlefield. Emily, new to the public relations department from her position as the head librarian, pushed her tray through the line, her stomach churning. The noise, the chatter, the constant buzz of activity, was overwhelming.

She found herself seeking a quiet corner, away from the loud conversations and the forced networking. The food tasted bland. She took a bite of salad.

She missed the hushed quiet of the library, the comforting weight of the books, the sense of order and purpose. She felt a vast emptiness, a feeling of being adrift in a sea of unknown faces. She slowly picked at her food, the fork trembling slightly in her hand.

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