dispirited - Story 31809 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The noise of the city, usually a comforting backdrop, grated on Olivia's nerves. The incessant honking, the chattering crowds – it was all too much. She’d been feeling this way for weeks, trapped in a cycle of self-doubt and negativity. She felt as though she was adrift, without any anchor.

A letter arrived. From a lawyer. Her father. Gone. And a bombshell: a sister. Olivia reread the words, each syllable echoing the hollowness within her.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the world. The room spun slightly. She couldn't feel anything except the chilling lack of feeling.

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