dispirited - Story 31729 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment felt cramped, the walls closing in. She felt the pressure, the crushing weight of expectation. She found herself procrastinating again. She had to deal with her aunt's things.

She found it while sorting through a drawer filled with old sewing patterns and faded ribbons. A typed letter. A resignation. The date was decades ago. She felt a connection, a kinship with the woman she had hardly known.

She felt the same way, the same… apathetic weight pressing down on her. She crumpled the letter in her hand, the paper brittle and thin. She felt trapped in a loop.

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