dispirited - Story 31463 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash in Clara's mouth. She stared at the chipped teacup, the one her Aunt Martha had always used. Her brother, Michael, was adamant. He needed to sell the antique tea set. The weight of his words settled on her like a physical burden. She sighed, her shoulders slumping. Her breath felt shallow, her limbs leaden. She pushed her untouched toast away, the bright colours of the tablecloth seeming to mock her inner gloom.

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