dispirited - Story 31615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The brightly lit room, overflowing with floral arrangements, felt like a cage. Amelia picked at a loose thread on her dress, her gaze drifting towards the window. The thought of facing the crowd made her skin crawl.

She found a quiet corner, away from the boisterous laughter and the upbeat music. The air tasted stale, heavy. She hated being the center of attention, the pressure of expectations.

Her speech was written, polished, ready. But she couldn't shake the feeling of inadequacy. She felt disconnected, like an actor forced to play a role she wasn't suited for. The words felt foreign on her tongue.

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