dispirited - Story 31839 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the hospital room seemed to amplify the silence. Eleanor sat beside her husband, Robert, who was recovering from surgery, feeling…inert. The future, uncertain. Their finances, a constant worry.

She needed to handle some paperwork. While she was doing this, she saw a bank statement in Robert’s wallet. A savings account. Substantial. She felt as though the blood had drained from her face.

Robert had been unusually cagey lately about his investments, always downplaying his financial prospects. She felt the tears prick at her eyes, a mixture of betrayal and bewilderment.

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