dispirited - Story 31646 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another day, another dollar," she muttered to herself, but the words lacked any conviction. She tapped her pen against the desk, a nervous rhythm accompanying the rapid beating of her heart. The familiar routine of emails and meetings felt particularly hollow this morning.

She noticed the unusually animated conversations in the break room. A colleague mentioned something about "golden parachutes" and "early retirement packages." The color drained from her face.

Later, she found herself staring at her reflection in the window. Her face was pale, and her eyes seemed hollow. A deep sigh escaped her lips as she thought about what was coming.

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