dispirited - Story 31290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house was oppressive. Sarah sat on the couch, the TV a flickering source of light in the dim room. Her parents were out of town, and she felt isolated and vulnerable. A Facebook request. From Alex. Alex Thompson, who made it a personal mission to make her life difficult.

She closed her eyes, the memories flooding back. She felt a familiar knot of anxiety tighten in her stomach. She felt the urge to hide, to disappear.

She got up and walked to the window, staring at the darkness outside. The world seemed vast and indifferent. She was so tired. She didn't bother accepting or rejecting the friend request. She just turned off the computer and went to bed.

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