dispirited - Story 31473 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted. Each footstep echoed the emptiness within her. She picked at a loose thread on her sweater as she dragged herself towards the door. The mailman had left a box, addressed to "Mr. Julian Finch."

She knew the name well. Julian Finch was the one who had disappeared. She wondered what it contained. A forgotten photograph? A letter of apology? She didn't open the door. He was gone.

She closed her eyes, imagining the contents. Had he gotten what he wanted? Did he ever find peace? She felt the air grow heavy with the weight of unanswered questions. She found herself just staring at the package, unable to move, each thought a sharp sting.

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