dispirited - Story 31867 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news of the budget cuts had arrived this morning, and Mrs. Olsen had been wrestling with a sense of helplessness ever since. Classes would be larger, resources would be scarce, and she felt her ability to make a difference shrinking with each passing hour. The weight of it all seemed to press down on her chest.

He found a small, beautifully bound journal on his desk after the final bell. The elegant script on the cover read, “For your thoughts.” It was from one of her students, a quiet girl who had always seemed to be struggling. He looked at the journal, and the small gift made him wonder if she was really helping in some small way.

He started writing in it.

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