dispirited - Story 31607 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon light faded, casting shadows across the den as Sarah scrolled through the digital album. She'd been putting this off for weeks. She felt as though she was wading through treacle.

She found pictures of her parents in their youth. Her mother, always a picture of primness, was sporting a nose ring and a mischievous grin, leaning against a motorcycle. Her father, the man of quiet contemplation, was mid-air, surfing a wave. She had been led to believe that they had been reserved and modest during their younger days.

Sarah slowly closed the laptop, the screen reflecting her own blank expression. A dull ache throbbed behind her eyes. Why had they told her these stories?

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