dispirited - Story 31883 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug felt cold in Clara's hands as she sat on the cracked patio furniture, staring at the overgrown weeds in her yard. Next door, the Ferraris were hosting a garden party, laughter and the clinking of glasses drifting over the fence. The air felt thick with the scent of expensive perfume and freshly mown grass. Clara couldn't bring herself to go out and weed.

She’d spent the morning staring at her dwindling bank account online, the numbers a stark reminder of her limited options.

A wave of nausea churned in her stomach. The Ferraris' perfectly sculpted hedges felt like a personal affront. She felt trapped, like a fly buzzing uselessly against a glass window.

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