dispirited - Story 31856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Climb a mountain." Sarah read the list, her eyes burning. Her father’s handwriting, so bold, so alive, felt like a slap in the face. She hadn’t left her apartment in days. The world outside seemed hostile, full of sharp edges and unwelcome light. She closed her eyes, the image of a towering peak, so far out of reach, a painful reminder of her immobility. A wave of exhaustion washed over her.

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