dispirited - Story 31699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lunch break was a mistake. Maria sat alone at a table, picking listlessly at her salad. The other colleagues chattered and laughed around her, their enthusiasm grating on her nerves. She felt a knot in her stomach.

She found it hard to meet their eyes, afraid her disappointment would be visible. She felt the urge to leave the room. The air was too thick, the sounds too sharp.

She thought about quitting. She thought about not caring. Neither option felt right. She just wished this feeling would go 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