dispirited - Story 31584 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall glittered, lights exploding across the stage. Maya gripped her purse, knuckles white. The announcer's voice, booming and excited, sent a wave of nausea through her. "And now, a special performance of 'Crimson Sky,' written by the immensely talented..." He paused, drawing out the suspense. "...someone else."

Her legs nearly gave out. She could feel the stares of the other patrons, waiting for the performance to begin. He didn't even *mention* her name.

She tried to focus on her breathing, but her throat constricted. Everything felt wrong, the vibrant stage, the expectant crowd, the song she'd written during the darkest period of her life. She needed air, and immediately. She rose, barely able to see through her sudden, stinging tears.

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