dispirited - Story 31673 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup trembled in Maya's hand, sloshing lukewarm liquid over the rim. Professor Ramirez. Gone. A bitter taste coated her mouth, and the aroma of the brewing coffee turned stale. Her heart felt heavy, the sensation of being weighed down by an invisible stone.

She stared at the open document on her laptop, her meticulously crafted outline mocking her with its emptiness. The vibrant colors of the diagrams and figures lost their allure. She felt strangely empty, as if someone had drained her of all enthusiasm.

The library, once a place of refuge, now seemed to press in on her, the walls of knowledge a suffocating prison. The silence echoed the silence in her mind.

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