dispirited - Story 31625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering fluorescent lights in the library made Emily's headache worse. She stared at the pages of her textbook, but the words swam before her eyes. The school year had been rough. It was hard to keep everything going.

She checked her phone. Mr. Harrison, her calculus teacher, had started following her. A flush crept up her neck. She’d ranted about derivatives and integrals in a string of recent posts. She felt a wave of heat wash over her.

She slammed the book shut. She could feel the tears welling up in her eyes. It was just one more thing. She didn't have the strength to check it. She needed a break.

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