dispirited - Story 31996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was shining, but everything felt gray. Maria sat on the park bench, staring at the notification on her phone. “Essay of the Month.” Her essay. The one where she had poured her heart into her struggles with self-doubt. She felt a knot in her stomach tighten.

The words she’d carefully chosen to articulate her personal journey, to express her doubts and hopes, were now being showcased to potential students. A feeling of dread washed over her.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the image of others reading and dissecting her innermost thoughts. The joy she once felt at being accepted into the school, the relief, was now replaced by a heavy cloud of apprehension. She looked up at the sky, and she felt a strong, sudden longing for anonymity.

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