dispirited - Story 31638 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air of the storage unit clung to her skin. She had come to find a box of old photos, but instead, she found a letter. It was addressed to her brother, filled with the childish enthusiasms of a younger self. The words now felt empty, a stark contrast to her current mood.

She ran a hand through her hair, a gesture of frustration. The letter was full of plans, of dreams they had shared. She felt the sting of regret in her eyes. The laughter that had once filled their lives was now a faint echo.

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