dispirited - Story 31994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up during breakfast. Sarah nearly choked on her cereal. The subject line: “Featured Essay.” Her stomach lurched. Her college application essay. Published. She slowly set down her spoon, the clatter echoing in the sudden silence of her apartment.

The essay, detailing her struggle with anxiety, was now public knowledge. She’d poured her heart out, detailing her fears and insecurities, hoping to be accepted. Now, she felt exposed, vulnerable. She felt a cold sweat prickle her skin.

She barely touched her breakfast. A wave of exhaustion washed over her. The thought of being seen, of being judged, filled her with a sense of dread. She couldn’t even bring herself to check the link. She was drowning in a sea of unease.

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