dispirited - Story 31366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another day, another disappointment," Evelyn muttered, the words barely audible as she opened the mailbox. Her reflection in the metal glinted back at her, a pale and tired version of the woman she used to be. The bills piled up, each one a weight on her shoulders. Then, a brightly colored envelope, a birthday card with no name on the front.

She closed the mailbox and leaned against it, the metal cold against her back. What was the point? Why bother? The vibrant design of the card felt like an insult. She carried the card back to her apartment, the silence within her a void that swallowed everything. She didn't open it. She tore the card apart.

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