dispirited - Story 31478 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of stale cigarettes and regret. The package sat, a solitary figure, near the door. It was addressed to "Ms. Vivian Sterling." The same name always, the same boxes, the same pattern of leaving. She knew she should do something.

She ran her hand through her hair. She imagined the contents. Trinkets. Letters. The detritus of a life lived and abandoned.

She felt a hollowness spreading through her chest, a vast emptiness that nothing could fill. She wanted to yell, to scream, to lash out at the world for its indifference, for its cruel, unrelenting push.

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