dispirited - Story 31573 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the grocery bags felt immense, a physical manifestation of the emptiness inside. Sarah had spotted Emily, radiant in a bright red dress, at the farmer's market. She’d approached, her carefully rehearsed greeting dissolving in the face of Emily’s polite, unfamiliar smile. "I'm Sarah, we went to summer camp together?" Sarah had asked, hope clinging desperately to her voice. Emily had politely shook her head, a confused smile on her face. "I don't remember that, I'm afraid." Sarah could feel her cheeks burning, the heat not related to the sunshine that streamed down on them. She felt the heavy bags weigh down on her, the weight pulling her downwards.

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