dispirited - Story 31886 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm so behind," Sarah whispered, her voice barely above a breath, staring at the overflowing inbox on her laptop. She ran a hand across her forehead, trying to clear her head. Across the street, the Millers were having their pool cleaned again, a testament to their leisure. Sarah, in contrast, was scrambling to meet deadlines, desperately trying to keep her freelance business afloat.

She closed her eyes for a moment, the silence of her tiny apartment pressing in on her.

The image of the Miller's pristine pool, shimmering in the sun, felt like a cruel joke. She pictured them lounging on their expensive sunbeds, while she sat hunched over her desk, fueled by lukewarm coffee and anxiety.

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