dispirited - Story 31629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty art studio felt cold and echoing. Olivia’s unfinished canvas leaned against the wall, a testament to her creative block. The vibrant colors she once loved now seemed dull and lifeless. The joy had vanished.

A buzz, her phone. Miss Miller, her art teacher. The anxiety was instant. She’d been posting about her frustrations lately. The teacher would know. She would see how she had failed.

She pushed back from her easel. The room spun. She was out of ideas. She felt like a shell. She didn't want to do anything anymore.

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