dispirited - Story 31947 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery felt muted today, reflecting the heavy mood settling over her. Chloe had begun avoiding her, his eyes darting away whenever their gazes met. She felt a growing sense of isolation, a sensation that the world was slowly dimming around her.

She found the manuscript tucked inside a locked box. The title on the cover: "The Ghost of Chloe." As she began to read, she felt a hollow sensation, a kind of aching emptiness, begin to take root.

The story was of a woman fading away, a woman losing her identity. The protagonist was portrayed as someone who was no longer there, a mere shell. Every sentence felt like a fresh wound.

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