dispirited - Story 31026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Uncle George, see!” Maya’s voice cut through the silence of the dusty attic room. George glanced up from the box of old photographs he'd been avoiding. The images brought back so many ghosts. So many reminders of what he hadn’t become. The drawing depicted a creature with wings and a tail, a familiar face, a friendly smile. His childhood companion, Finnegan. George felt a chill despite the stifling heat. He felt emptied, like a vessel slowly leaking away.

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