dispirited - Story 31641 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the window of Maya's cubicle, mirroring the relentless drumming in her head. Another Tuesday, another mountain of paperwork, another email from HR promising “exciting new opportunities.” The irony wasn't lost on her. She felt like a cog, meticulously polished but fundamentally useless.

She'd been staring at the same quarterly report for an hour, the numbers blurring into an indecipherable mess. A sudden, sharp ache settled in her chest.

Then, she overheard the hushed phone conversation in the adjacent office. Mr. Henderson, the CFO, practically whispering about a “done deal” and a “significant payout.” Maya’s stomach dropped.

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