dispirited - Story 31869 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The faculty meeting had been particularly brutal, filled with criticisms and mandates that felt designed to crush any remaining creativity. Ms. Kapoor returned to her classroom, the air thick with unspoken frustrations. The enthusiasm she once held for her profession felt like a distant memory, replaced by a weary cynicism.

As she entered her classroom, she noticed a small, potted plant on her desk, a vibrant succulent with bright green leaves. A note was attached: "To remind you of the beauty that still grows." The note was signed by a former student.

She found herself watering the plant, watching the green leaves and feeling a slight warmth in her chest.

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