dispirited - Story 31294 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in Sarah's stomach was a heavy, leaden ball. Her meticulously chosen outfit hung limply in the closet, a useless prop in a play that wasn't going to happen. She'd been so looking forward to the laughter, the music, the feeling of being surrounded by the people who cared about her. Now, she felt a profound sense of isolation, a gnawing emptiness that settled deep within her bones. She sank onto the bed, the mattress offering no comfort.

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