dispirited - Story 31990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Condo," echoed the empty apartment. The word felt like a death knell in the sterile silence. She had been staring at the notice for hours, lost in a sea of unspoken emotions.

She cancelled her evening plans, and sat by the window. The city lights began to twinkle. They seemed to mock her. The laughter of people walking in the streets felt like a cruel melody.

She felt a wave of fatigue, a complete lack of interest in the world around her. She closed her eyes. The ache in her heart intensified. She just wanted the day to end.

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