dispirited - Story 31537 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant campus, once a source of excitement, now felt like a stage set for someone else’s success. Maria walked aimlessly through the quad, her steps slow, her head bowed. The scholarship, that shimmering promise of a brighter future, had dissolved into thin air. The wind whipped her hair across her face, as if trying to physically dislodge the feeling of being deflated. She wanted to scream, to lash out, but the emotion was a tight knot in her chest.

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