dispirited - Story 31298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh,” she said, the word a tiny, fragile sound that barely escaped her lips. Amelia had been bouncing with glee all day, buzzing with excitement. Now, she felt like a child who'd been promised a trip to the moon, only to be told that it had been cancelled. She walked to the window, the image of the birthday preparations, all the planning, the shopping, now rendered useless, swirling around her head, leaving her with a sense of utter futility.

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