dispirited - Story 31008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It’s flattering,” the art dealer had said, his voice smooth and condescending. Ethan stared at the magazine, the page displaying a model wearing his "Celestial Dreams" design as a full body tattoo. He felt a dull throb behind his temples.

He stood in front of his easel, the half-finished painting a testament to his creative drought. The colours seemed to taunt him, bright and accusing. A feeling of hollowness spread throughout his body.

He skipped his usual morning run. Even exercise, the one thing that usually cleared his head, felt like a chore. The world seemed to be closing in.

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