dispirited - Story 31039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in Alex’s apartment was deafening, punctuated only by the rhythmic ticking of a clock. The book, "Alex: A Portrait in Truth," felt like a weight on the coffee table. He hadn't eaten all day. The lack of food was almost preferable to the incessant anxiety.

He stared at the page, the words blurring into a meaningless jumble. He felt a profound sense of… alienation. The biography was a fabrication, a betrayal of trust. It seemed the world was now privy to secrets he never intended to share.

He rubbed his eyes. The thought of facing tomorrow, of encountering the curious stares and the probing questions, was a crushing weight. He felt utterly and completely lost.

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