dispirited - Story 31334 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up on Sarah’s phone, and the world tilted. "The Golden Wok: Last Day of Service." Her jaw clenched. Not the Golden Wok! She hadn't even been there in months, but it was *there*, a constant presence, the guarantee of perfect dumplings when life got hard.

She slammed the phone on the table. The sudden movement sent a plate of untouched salad spinning. Her hands felt clumsy, useless. The energy drained from her. A sense of weary resignation settled upon her. She hated this feeling, this hollowness, this…emptiness.

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