dispirited - Story 31370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind howled outside, mirroring the storm raging inside Sarah's heart. She hadn’t eaten all day, the thought of food making her stomach churn. Going to the mailbox was an act of obligation. She was surprised to find a birthday card. No signature, only colorful illustrations.

Sarah sat on the floor with her back against the door, the card in her lap. The vibrant colors mocked her, and the gesture felt empty. She leaned against the door, and then let the card fall to the floor. She sat in the silence.

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