dispirited - Story 31877 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery buzzed, but the noise was nothing more than a dull roar in Anya's ears. She felt a numbness, a hollowness, that settled deep within her. It had started after she saw the banners.

Her intricate paper cutouts, her expressions of grief and joy, were plastered across billboards. They were huge, anonymous, and devoid of the intimacy she had painstakingly crafted. Her name wasn't there.

Anya clenched her jaw. She felt a burning sensation in her eyes. It was a pain that clawed at her insides. It felt as if her soul had been chipped away. She just wanted to disappear.

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