dispirited - Story 31489 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photo album lay open on the passenger seat, a morbid display of happier times. Maya couldn't bring herself to close it, even though the images only amplified the emptiness she felt. The house across the street was slowly becoming unrecognizable.

Each photograph was a punch to the gut: birthday parties, Christmases, family vacations. Now, just emptiness. She ran her fingers over a photo of her father, his arm around her, his smile bright. The loss felt fresh, raw, even after all these years.

She felt a hollowness that seemed to expand with each passing second. The feeling of being completely and utterly lost.

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