dispirited - Story 31739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party, which had been meant to be celebratory, felt like a wake. The music, a playlist of their favorite songs, was a painful reminder of what they were losing. The air was thick with forced smiles and strained conversation. Mia watched, feeling the emptiness in her chest. Liam, her best friend, was leaving.

She moved through the crowd, a ghost in her own life. Every shared glance, every fleeting touch, felt like a farewell. The laughter, usually a source of joy, now grated on her nerves. The party was almost over, and she knew there was no going back.

She felt like everything she loved was being taken from her. The future was a blank canvas, and she knew she wouldn't be able to bear the color of it.

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