dispirited - Story 31516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just... I'm not sure how to say this," Coach Henderson had stammered, his usual confidence gone. The sentence had hung in the air, a sentence of doom. Maria felt as if a cold hand had grasped her heart.

The celebratory team dinner felt like a cruel joke. She picked at her food, unable to taste anything. Each bite felt like a betrayal of her own hopes.

The walk home was a blur. The familiar route, usually a source of comfort, now felt like a lonely and desolate path. The streetlights seemed to cast long, ominous shadows.

When she got back to her room, she sat at her desk, staring blankly at her trophies, reminders of what was and what would never be again.

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