dispirited - Story 31734 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in Chloe's chest was a physical thing, a concrete block she dragged behind her. Across the country, she kept repeating. Even the bright kitchen lights seemed dim. She stared at the overflowing trashcan, a physical manifestation of everything she didn’t want to confront. Olivia was leaving.

The usual cheerful chatter she shared with her husband during breakfast died away. She couldn't eat. Couldn't speak. Just the thought of empty evenings, of solitary dinners, of a life stripped of its greatest joy, choked her.

She picked up the phone, scrolling through their countless pictures. Every memory, every shared laugh, seemed like a fresh wound. Tears welled, blurring the screen. She needed Olivia, and she couldn’t have her.

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