dispirited - Story 31487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The keys were still in her pocket, a useless talisman. Emily stared at the house, its windows like vacant eyes staring back at her. The air tasted of metal and something sour, the metallic taste of tears she couldn't shed.

She closed her eyes, trying to conjure the memories she craved. They flickered, fragmented, like an old film reel, the images fading before they could fully form. The sound of the machinery revving was relentless.

She felt a physical ache, a dull throb that resonated deep within her chest. The house, her refuge, her childhood, was about to become nothing.

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