dispirited - Story 31997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived mid-lecture. Ethan's gaze snapped from the professor to his phone screen. He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his chest. “Featured Application Essays.” His essay. The one where he described his turbulent relationship with his father.

He felt a wave of heat wash over him. The essay, a deeply personal account of his family life, was now being showcased for everyone to see. He envisioned eyes scanning his words, judging his story. He felt trapped, exposed.

He barely heard the rest of the lecture. He found himself fiddling with his pen, unable to concentrate. The weight of the situation felt like a leaden cloak, smothering him. He couldn’t wait for the class to end, so he could just be alone.

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