dispirited - Story 31541 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mimicking the frantic drumming in Martha's chest. She’d found the account scrolling through her own feed, a hollow ache blossoming in her stomach. A profile photo of her daughter, Lily, but the name... something she'd never heard before. The captions were full of a wit that felt alien. Lily, who spent her evenings hunched over textbooks, suddenly transformed into a digital comedian. She slumped onto the couch, the weight of a thousand unspoken words pressing down on her.

The takeaway coffee she'd been looking forward to sat cold on the kitchen counter. A lump formed in her throat as she stared at the screen, the vibrant colours and clever phrases taunting her. It felt like she'd been building a life with a stranger. Each post was a brick in a wall she didn't know how to scale.

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