dispirited - Story 31009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery owner beamed, "It's free advertising!" For Michael, it was nothing of the sort. He looked at the photo, a man's back bearing his "Lost Souls" design. He felt a bitter taste on his tongue. He had spent months working on this piece.

He now felt incapable of painting. Everything seemed pointless. The colours of his palette had become muted. He just wanted to sit in the darkness, and do nothing.

He had left his phone on the charger. He didn't want to see anyone or talk. He just wanted to be left 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