dispirited - Story 31777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt suffocating. Amelia's chest felt tight as the lawyer spoke. Her sister, Grace, had inherited the family’s wealth, a fortune amassed through shrewd investments. Amelia received a small, dilapidated cottage in the countryside and a collection of their grandmother's antique jewelry.

She felt a cold dread creep through her. The cottage was miles from everything, isolated and lonely. The jewelry was... just jewelry.

That night, she sifted through the jewelry box. She saw a small, tarnished locket. Inside, she found a tiny, faded photograph of her grandmother laughing, her eyes crinkled with joy. Underneath, a single word: "Free."

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