dispirited - Story 31587 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the music festival seemed to mock Clara. She'd been a regular at these events for years, but now the noise, the energy, felt oppressive. She knew what to expect. Her song, "Whispers of the Wind," was on the main stage setlist. Performed by a group she'd never even heard of.

She wandered through the crowd, unable to meet anyone's gaze. The air buzzed with excitement, but inside her, a cold emptiness had settled.

She watched the stage from the periphery, her chest tightening with each passing second. The band launched into the song. Her song. She turned away, disappearing into the sea of people.

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