dispirited - Story 31801 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of Maya's apartment, mirroring the turmoil inside her. Another rejection email. Another missed opportunity. She slumped onto the threadbare couch, the cushions offering little comfort. Her gaze drifted over the scattered bills on the coffee table, a constant reminder of her precarious financial state. The silence of her apartment amplified the heavy feeling in her chest.

Then, the phone rang. A lawyer. Something about her father. Dead. And, apparently, a daughter. Another daughter. Maya's breath hitched. A sister. The news landed like a physical blow, knocking the wind out of her.

“Hello?” she croaked, the word barely audible. The lawyer's voice, smooth and professional, rattled on about legal proceedings and inheritance. Maya barely heard. Her world felt suddenly tilted, the ground unstable beneath her feet.

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