dispirited - Story 31595 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the bookstore was suffocating, a heavy blanket pressing down on her. She'd always envisioned her book nestled amongst the shelves, a tangible piece of her inside the store. Now, the thought seemed like a cruel, impossible fantasy.

She flipped through a popular novel, the words blurring before her eyes. The characters' joy, the story's triumph, seemed like a mocking spectacle. She suddenly felt a strong desire to leave and a wave of nausea rose in her throat.

She placed the book back on the shelf, the gesture almost violent. She walked out into the bright, bustling street, the crowd's energy a stark and unwelcome contrast to her own state.

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