dispirited - Story 31343 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just browsing," Amelia mumbled to the woman running the yard sale, her voice flat and dull. The vibrant colors of the blooming azaleas in the front yards seemed to mock the darkness that had settled in her soul after the rejection letter. Every "no" felt like another weight, another proof of her perceived inadequacy.

She walked slowly, her gaze skimming over the clutter. Nothing caught her eye, nothing piqued her interest. The sun felt too bright, the sounds of conversation too loud.

Then, in a box overflowing with discarded toys, she spotted a familiar face. Her heart lurched. It was Patches, her childhood bear. A wave of something unexpected—bittersweet and heavy—washed over her. She knew she shouldn't, she knew it was silly, but she reached out and picked him up.

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