dispirited - Story 31819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was a blur. The divorce proceedings were dragging on, each day bringing a fresh wave of humiliation and despair. David felt like he was drowning in a sea of legal jargon and accusations. The weight of the world felt like it was crushing him.

His friends and family had advised him to seek professional help. He was running on fumes. The constant emotional turmoil had left him exhausted. He agreed to go to therapy.

The therapist, a woman with a gentle voice and calming presence, greeted him with a smile. It was Sarah, the girl who had ruthlessly teased him in high school. He remembered her cutting remarks, her dismissive laughter. He was filled with a sense of dread. He felt a sudden, intense urge to flee.

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