dispirited - Story 31679 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement hit Sarah like a sudden gust of wind. Professor Blake, moving on. A wave of nausea rolled through her, and she had to grip the edge of her desk to steady herself. Her project, her passion, suddenly felt directionless.

She pushed away from her chair, her legs feeling wobbly. She walked slowly towards the window, staring at the quad. The students there seemed to be laughing, enjoying the sunshine, unburdened.

The weight of the world settled on her shoulders. Her hopes, her aspirations, felt as fragile as a butterfly's wing. It was all a lot to take in.

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