dispirited - Story 32000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara felt a dull ache behind her eyes, the beginning of a headache. She had been at the library all day, immersed in research, but nothing could distract her from the persistent anxiety. The email. The subject line: “Winning Essays.” Her heart sank. It was her essay.

The words she had carefully chosen, the intimate details she had revealed about her past, were now being presented as a model for others. A wave of embarrassment washed over her. She felt exposed, vulnerable. She wanted to erase every trace of the essay's existence.

She pushed her chair away from the desk, unable to focus. The bright fluorescent lights of the library seemed to amplify the feeling of unease that coursed through her. She needed to be somewhere else, anywhere else, away from the prying eyes of the public.

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