dispirited - Story 31483 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The realtor had said, "It's just bricks and mortar, honey." Sarah scoffed at the memory, the words echoing in her mind as she walked through the overgrown garden one last time. The weeds clawed at her ankles, mirroring the way the past seemed to cling to her soul.

Her shoulders slumped as she knelt by the rose bush her mother had painstakingly tended. A single, withered bloom remained, a poignant reminder of faded beauty. She felt the tears sting her eyes, but refused to let them fall.

The house, with its faded paint and creaky floors, held the imprint of her childhood, its secrets and sorrows. She turned and walked towards her car, the weight of everything she was leaving behind pressing down on her.

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