dispirited - Story 31623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafeteria buzzed around Chloe like an irritating mosquito. The smell of reheated pizza made her stomach churn. The group she usually sat with was absent today, and even talking felt like too much effort. She just wanted to be invisible.

“Oh,” she mumbled under her breath. A follow request, from Ms. Ramirez, her biology teacher. Ms. Ramirez was cool, she knew, but that didn't help. She’d always admired her, and now Ms. Ramirez would know what Chloe was really like, the real, messy her.

Chloe closed the app and looked for a quiet corner to eat her lunch. The room seemed suddenly loud and oppressive. She just wanted the day to be over.

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