dispirited - Story 31774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement echoed in the sterile courtroom. Maya’s gaze flicked to her brother, Ben, who was smiling, his eyes sparkling with delight. He'd inherited the family's beachside property, a sprawling mansion overlooking the ocean. Maya received a small, nondescript apartment in the city and a box of old vinyl records.

She felt a wave of nausea. The air seemed thin, difficult to breathe. As the lawyers droned on, she focused on her hands, twisting them in her lap. The records. She hated the records.

Back in her new apartment, she lifted the lid of the box. A note was tucked inside, handwritten by her grandfather. "Listen," it read, "and you will find the rhythm of your own life."

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