dispirited - Story 31558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment was thick with unspoken words. The conversation after her shift at the hospital had been fraught, her exhaustion both visible and palpable. Her attempts at lightheartedness were weak and fell flat, like deflated balloons. The weight of her patients’ suffering hung over her like a shroud.

Her roommate, Maria, bounced around the apartment, bubbling with an excited energy. Maria was trying to convince her of the joys of owning a rabbit. The idea of a creature that needed constant attention felt almost unbearable.

The prospect of dealing with yet another demand on her already depleted reserves filled her with a sense of dread. She retreated into her room, closing the door softly behind her.

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