dispirited - Story 31364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain hammered against the windows, mirroring the relentless pounding in Clara's head. She hadn't slept properly in weeks, the anxieties of her life a constant, nagging presence. Going to the mailbox was a perfunctory act, a habit she performed out of obligation. Today, amidst the usual bills and flyers, a birthday card. No signature.

She stood in her kitchen, holding the card. It felt alien in her grasp, a strange object dropped into her life. Her hand trembled as she slid a finger under the flap of the envelope. It was a chore to even want to open it. She just looked at it and then threw it in the trash.

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