dispirited - Story 31714 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Rent?” The landlord’s voice, sharp and unsympathetic, echoed in her ears. He hadn't bothered to look up from the eviction notice he was drawing up. She felt a flush of heat rise to her cheeks. She forced a smile. A fake.

The weight of the eviction notice felt tremendous. She walked slowly, each step feeling difficult. The streets were filled with people, and their laughter only seemed to make her plight feel more isolated.

Her stomach churned, a knot of unease twisting tighter with each passing moment. The city, usually a source of excitement, now felt like a maze, each turn leading to a dead end.

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