dispirited - Story 31530 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert was supposed to be a celebration, a chance to hear the score adapted from the author's books. Instead, the music sounded flat, lifeless to her ears. Each note seemed to remind her of the dishonesty, the betrayal. She sat stiffly in her seat, her body tense, her enjoyment spoiled. She felt the tears welling up, blurring the stage lights. As the applause died down, she slipped away unnoticed.

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