dispirited - Story 31545 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the house felt thick, suffocating. I found the account while attempting to “friend” my daughter, Emily, on a whim. The discovery was like being punched in the gut. The account was bursting with a life I never knew she had. Parties, laughing faces, inside jokes. A world where I was obviously not welcome.

My tea went cold in my hands. The wallpaper seemed to be closing in. Every detail of the account – the posed selfies, the slang I couldn't decipher – felt like a deliberate act of separation. The silence that followed felt like a judgment.

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