dispirited - Story 31797 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Can you believe it?” Maya said to her partner, the words lacking any real energy. The house felt stale, the air thick with something she couldn't quite name. She hadn't managed to get around to unpacking the boxes yet, the prospect felt… exhausting. Each room was a monument to the work she still had to do, the work she was failing to do.

The news broke on the radio, casual and matter-of-fact. Her home's sordid past. The details, graphic and unsettling, clung to her like a shroud. The walls seemed to vibrate with the echoes of violence. The house, once a haven, was now a source of deep sorrow, a weight she couldn't shift.

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