dispirited - Story 31666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air grew progressively denser, trapping Fiona in a cocoon of stale oxygen and mounting frustration. She had a deadline to meet, a presentation to prep, a mountain of emails to respond to. And now this. Her usually meticulous hair was starting to fall out of place.

Across from her, John, from sales, was attempting to crack jokes, but his voice lacked its usual energy. Fiona found herself unable to offer even a polite smile. It was as if all the joy had been sucked out of her.

"Just great," she finally said, her voice flat, devoid of any inflection. The thought of all the things she needed to do was a crushing weight.

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