dispirited - Story 31421 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation landed on the worn welcome mat with a dull thud. Amelia stared at the crisp envelope, the gold lettering a mocking reminder of a time she'd rather forget. She considered leaving it there, letting the rain blur the address, but guilt, that familiar weight, nudged her forward.

Her apartment felt smaller than usual. Dust motes danced in the lone ray of sunlight slicing through the blinds, illuminating the clutter of unwashed dishes and discarded takeout containers. The reflection in the grimy window showed a woman older than her years, the lines around her eyes etched deep by sleepless nights and quiet disappointments.

“Twenty years,” she mumbled, her voice raspy from disuse. She crumpled the invitation in her hand, then smoothed it out, a flicker of something she couldn't quite name passing through her. Maybe. Maybe she'd go. Just to see.

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