dispirited - Story 31362 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A chill snaked through Amelia's apartment, despite the thermostat being cranked up. She hunched her shoulders, pulling her cardigan tighter. The unopened bills lay scattered on the entryway table, each a reminder of the mounting debt that choked her nights. Today, as she dragged herself to the mailbox, she found a splash of color against the drabness: a birthday card, no name.

She held the card, turning it over and over. It was like a forgotten melody, a faint echo of better times. She found herself sitting on the floor, the glossy paper reflecting the dim light of the hallway. Why now? Why this sudden gesture of… what? She couldn't even name the feeling. She didn't open the card.

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