dispirited - Story 31695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house was deafening. Sarah had never felt so alone. The rejection letter was now lying on her desk, the cold words mocking her ambitions. She let out a heavy sigh, the air escaping her lungs with a slow, drawn-out sound.

She looked at her reflection, noticing the dark circles under her eyes, the drawn look on her face. She hadn't felt like eating all day. All the effort, the planning, the sacrifices – for what?

A sudden pang of anger coursed through her. She felt almost physically ill. She pushed the letter away.

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