dispirited - Story 31289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another rejection," Chloe sighed, pushing away from her desk. Her job search had been fruitless for months. The weight of her failures pressed down on her. The latest rejection stung more than the others. A friend request. It was from Mark. The leader of the pack who had delighted in tormenting her in high school.

She felt a hollowness in her chest, a sense of being perpetually behind. She was filled with a sudden, overwhelming fatigue. She slowly reached for her phone.

She deleted the request, then turned off her phone. She felt completely alone.

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