dispirited - Story 31933 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just what I need," she muttered, her voice a low, flat monotone. The lilies, creamy white and fragrant, sat on the counter of the empty coffee shop. She ran a hand through her hair, the strands catching on the chipped nail polish. It was a slow day, no customers, no energy.

She had poured her heart, her savings, into this place. Now, it was just her and the scent of stale coffee. The lease was a monster she struggled to keep fed. She didn't have time for this nonsense, for gestures with no context. She wasn't built for sweet nothings.

She wanted to fling them across the room, smash them against the wall. But instead, she carefully placed them in a vase, the fragrant scent already beginning to make her head spin.

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