dispirited - Story 31029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the apartment was deafening. Michael sat in his armchair, the remote control clutched uselessly in his hand. The TV screen flickered, but he couldn't focus. Everything felt muted, as if someone had turned down the volume on the world. Maya's latest creation lay on the floor, a whimsical rendition of a creature with mismatched eyes and an oddly shaped hat. It was his old friend, Bartholomew. Michael felt a strange tightening in his chest, a sense of loss and longing. He felt a deep disconnect from everything. He was just… empty.

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