dispirited - Story 31469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house seemed too quiet, the silence pressing in on her. The antique rocking chair, a relic from her childhood, was to be sold to cover his uncle’s debts. Sarah wandered through the rooms, touching familiar objects, feeling the ghosts of the past. Her gaze kept returning to the rocking chair. A deep, pervasive melancholy washed over her. She couldn’t seem to muster the energy to speak, to protest, to do anything.

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