dispirited - Story 31533 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you even listening?" Her roommate, Chloe, was asking a question. Sarah barely registered the sound. She stared out the window, at the gray, drizzly day mirroring her mood. The scholarship. Gone. Erroneously awarded. The email, with its cold, clinical language, had stripped away the thin veneer of hope she'd been clinging to. She felt a bone-deep weariness, a hollowness that seemed to suck the color from the world.

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