dispirited - Story 31849 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was shining, but Maya couldn’t feel it. The crispness of the air did nothing to invigorate her. The note, clipped to her door, fluttered slightly in the breeze. "Excessive disturbances." The words rang in her ears. She hadn't even been doing anything. Just… living. She hadn't even realized she was making a sound.

She walked back inside, the door closing behind her with a definitive click. Everything felt muted, as if the volume had been turned down on her existence. She stared at the blank wall, the vibrant colors of her home a dull backdrop to her mood.

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