dispirited - Story 31677 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow, knocking Sophie off balance. Professor Ito, gone. It was a cold shock. A coldness she couldn't shake. Her fingers, usually deft on the keyboard, fumbled as she typed.

She stared at the screen, the words blurring before her eyes. The complex equations and elaborate theories, once a source of fascination, now felt like a burden. The thought of starting again, of finding a new mentor, filled her with a sense of dread.

She pushed back from her desk, the chair scraping against the floor. The world felt muffled, the colors drained.

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