dispirited - Story 31531 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ramen tasted like cardboard. Amelia poked at the noodles with her chopsticks, the steam doing little to warm her. She'd been so sure, so certain this scholarship would be a turning point. Instead, the letter had arrived this morning, the truth laid bare in black and white. A clerical error. The money wasn’t hers. It was supposed to go to a girl with a different last name, a different life. Amelia swallowed, the lump in her throat making it hard to breathe. The vibrant posters in the university cafeteria, usually a source of inspiration, seemed to mock her with their promises of success and opportunity.

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