dispirited - Story 31643 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash in her mouth. She hadn't bothered to put on the lipstick this morning; a subtle act of rebellion, she supposed. This morning’s staff meeting felt particularly vapid. Another presentation on "synergy" and "growth."

The meeting ended, and as she passed the CEO's office, she saw the lawyer from the firm she used to work at. A cold, heavy weight settled in her stomach.

She found herself avoiding eye contact with everyone. The usual office chatter about the weekend felt like a cruel joke. She needed a cigarette, but she had quit six months ago. She hadn't felt this down in a while.

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