dispirited - Story 31576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pizza tasted like cardboard. Amelia sat alone, the remnants of the meal a silent testament to her solitude. She had seen Chloe at the park and approached. It felt like she was a stranger approaching a stranger. Amelia had described their adventures, the shared secrets, the laughter echoing across playgrounds. "I'm sorry, it's just, it's not ringing any bells." Chloe had been polite, but her eyes held only curiosity. The pizza suddenly tasted bland and tasteless. Amelia pushed the food around her plate, the food suddenly unappetizing. She felt like a character in a bad play, reciting lines to an empty audience.

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