dispirited - Story 31552 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah slumped onto the worn armchair, the springs protesting under her weight. The apartment felt colder than usual, even though the thermostat was set to seventy. A chill seemed to emanate from the very walls, settling deep in her bones. The rejection letter from the art gallery sat on the coffee table, a stark white accusation.

Her roommate, Chloe, had been going on and on about getting a cat, a fluffy Persian to brighten up the place. Sarah couldn’t even muster the energy to feign enthusiasm. The idea of another living being needing her attention felt like a monumental task. She just wanted to disappear, to vanish into the folds of the worn armchair.

"So, what do you think?" Chloe asked brightly, holding up a picture of the proposed feline companion. Sarah could barely lift her gaze to see the image.

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