dispirited - Story 31441 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the dorm room window, mirroring the storm brewing inside Maya. She'd walked in to find Liam, her roommate, staring at the open journal on her desk. His face flushed, he stammered an apology about needing paper. The casual lie felt like a punch to the gut. Now, she avoided him, eating silently at the campus cafe, picking at the dry chicken Caesar. The weight of it all pressed down on her, leaving her feeling leaden. She’d always trusted Liam. Now, every shared laugh, every late-night study session, felt tainted.

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