dispirited - Story 31993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Lila slumped in her chair, the light from her laptop reflecting in her watery eyes. This wasn't supposed to happen. She’d always considered herself a private person, yet here was her college application essay, plastered across the university's online resources.

The familiar words, the story of her father's passing, stung like a fresh wound. She felt a familiar weight pressing down on her chest. The essay was supposed to be a secret, a private reflection. Now, strangers would scrutinize her grief, analyze her vulnerability.

She wanted to delete the document, erase it from existence. But she knew that was impossible. A deep weariness settled over her. She pushed the laptop away, unable to bear the sight of it any longer. She stared out the window, at the gray, overcast sky, feeling as bleak as the weather.

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