dispirited - Story 31543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to have lost its colour. Sarah had stumbled upon the account by accident – a suggested friend popping up on her own Instagram. Her daughter, Chloe, a girl who usually only talked to her about homework, was apparently an influencer. The photos were posed, the clothes expensive, the lifestyle unattainable. It felt like betrayal.

A wave of nausea washed over her. She paced her kitchen, the tiles cold beneath her feet. Chloe had always seemed so… genuine. This new online identity felt like a performance, a play Sarah hadn't been invited to watch. The feeling in her chest was one of being left out, excluded, and utterly forgotten.

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