dispirited - Story 31747 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt gray, the sun’s warmth unable to penetrate the thick fog that clung to her. She had been avoiding her reflection in the mirror because it seemed to echo the hollowness she felt inside. She forced herself to go through the motions of the day.

A sudden crash, a loud splintering sound, shook her from her torpor. Mrs. Davis’s prize-winning magnolia, famous throughout the neighborhood for its spectacular blooms, had fallen. The once proud tree now lay sprawled across her yard, its branches broken, its leaves scattered. Mrs. Davis stood there, her hands clasped in front of her, her face a mask of silent sorrow.

The weight in her chest, already considerable, seemed to increase. She couldn't even bring herself to offer condolences. The thought of social interaction was just too much.

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