dispirited - Story 31307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the office, which usually energized her, now seemed to assault her senses. The sheer audacity of the situation was almost comical. After all these years, dedicated service, and consistently exceeding expectations, she was being paid less than the fresh-faced kid with zero experience. She felt a profound lack of… buoyancy. She pushed away from her desk, the chair creaking under the weight of her unspoken frustration, and went for a long, aimless walk around the office.

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