dispirited - Story 31375 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house was a physical pressure on her chest. Clara sat on the floor, surrounded by unopened boxes, the air thick with the scent of pine and abandonment. The new neighborhood was supposed to be friendly, but she couldn’t muster the enthusiasm to meet anyone.

She was cleaning the kitchen when she noticed a section of the floor that seemed… off. It was colder than the surrounding tiles, slightly uneven. She tapped it with her knuckles. A hollow sound echoed back. Her curiosity was barely enough to get her to start investigating.

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