dispirited - Story 31547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands trembled as she scrolled through the hidden profile. Her son, Thomas, had always been so open, so chatty. Now, he was a different person. Photos of him with people she didn't know, places she'd never heard of. The whole thing felt like a betrayal.

She found herself in the garden, staring at the overgrown weeds. The unkempt space mirrored the turmoil inside her. The sun felt too bright, the birdsong too loud. She felt as though she had been cast adrift.

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