dispirited - Story 31693 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like burnt water. Claire swirled the liquid around her mug, the motion aimless and repetitive. The office buzzed with the usual Friday afternoon energy, the air thick with anticipation for the weekend. She, however, felt a profound disconnect from it all.

She found herself unable to focus on the report she was supposed to be finalizing. The words blurred on the screen, the numbers seeming to mock her. The opportunity, once so clear, now felt like a cruel joke.

The phone rang, and she jumped, startled. It was her mother, asking about their dinner plans for the weekend. "Oh, yeah, Mom, I'm just…I'm just a bit swamped," she mumbled into the phone, her voice flat.

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