dispirited - Story 31336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Gone?" Maria whispered, her voice barely audible. She traced the cursive letters on the little black chalkboard outside "The Book Nook." She felt as though the wind had been knocked out of her.

Her favourite place. The comforting smell of old paper and coffee, the quiet rustle of pages, the kind smile of the owner. Gone. She stood, transfixed, feeling the moisture prickling her eyes. The idea of entering another bookstore felt alien and impossible. It all felt wrong.

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