dispirited - Story 31613 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ballroom buzzed with anticipatory chatter. Sarah stood by the buffet table, picking listlessly at a miniature quiche. She avoided eye contact, the vibrant colours and loud music grating on her nerves. The party was supposed to be joyful, a testament to her mother's career. It felt like a monument to what she'd failed to accomplish.

She caught a glimpse of her own reflection in a mirrored pillar. The elegant dress, the carefully styled hair - all felt like a facade. The smile she plastered on as she greeted another guest felt brittle, on the verge of cracking.

The speech she had prepared, filled with anecdotes and praise, lay folded in her clutch. The words felt like lead in her mouth. She wished she could disappear, fade into the background. She was so very tired of pretending.

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