dispirited - Story 31505 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon light was fading, casting long shadows across the yard. The dog, a fluffy white cloud, was now happily chasing butterflies among the wilting sunflowers. Emily, sprawled in a deck chair, didn't even react. The vibrant colors of her garden felt muted.

She hadn't touched her book all day. The words on the page blurred, meaningless. She felt like she was watching herself from a distance, observing someone who was supposed to be happy, but wasn't.

The dog finally stopped, panting, and looked towards her, tail wagging. She could manage a weak smile. It was enough.

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