dispirited - Story 31978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air in the apartment pressed in on her. The world felt muffled, distant. A knock at the door. Her neighbor, Mr. Garcia, stood there, his face flushed with the energy she couldn't muster. A watering can swung gently at his side.

"Good afternoon! Beautiful day, right? Listen… I was thinking… the best light is in your backyard! I was hoping… I was hoping I could put in a garden, and…” he stammered a little.

She closed her eyes briefly, the brightness outside an assault. The thought of the effort of anything, even a simple response, was overwhelming.

"Fine," she mumbled, not bothering to meet his eyes. The interior of her mind was a wasteland; his garden idea was just another thing.

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