dispirited - Story 31306 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The laughter in the break room felt like needles against her skin. She'd been in the same role for three years, pouring her heart into her work. Now, she found out that the new hire, barely out of school, was making more than she was. Sarah felt a peculiar hollowness inside her, a feeling like the wind had been knocked out of her. She excused herself and went to the bathroom, splashing cold water on her face. Her reflection stared back at her, a stranger in her own skin, and she turned away.

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