dispirited - Story 31826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the rehearsal studio was stale, reflecting the state of Clara's morale. The choreographer's email, which read that they were going with a different dancer, still stung. Her solo, her passion, her entire reason for living, seemed diminished in importance.

She walked to the gym, hoping the routine would clear her head. The rhythmic pounding of feet on treadmills filled the room. The mirrors reflected her own dejected face.

A new dancer, Sarah, walked in, wearing the same outfit she had purchased in an attempt to be memorable. She was practicing the same dance sequence, choreographed using the same music. Clara's world felt like it was breaking.

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