dispirited - Story 31569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was immaculate, the decorations perfect. Chloe stood in the living room, a ghost of a smile playing on her lips. She had worked hard on the housewarming party she had planned for herself. But all thoughts of that event vanished at the thought of the party her friend, Michael, was hosting. A glamorous ball, everyone was sure to attend.

She touched a hand to her forehead, the gesture betraying her inner turmoil.

She wanted to feel the pride and excitement she’d initially felt, but she didn’t. Her eyes scanned the room, seeing all the things she had prepared, each of them a reminder of what she was lacking. She found herself unable to maintain her façade.

She felt a hollowness in her chest. She needed to be more… presentable.

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