dispirited - Story 31068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the laundromat felt thick, heavy with the scent of detergent and damp clothes. David’s application had been rejected. He had hoped this scholarship would make things easier. He slumped against the wall, the harsh fluorescent lights intensifying the feeling of helplessness.

He'd been so sure this was the answer. He watched the clothes spin in the washing machine, a monotonous swirl of colours. It reflected the way he felt. The money he had saved, now not nearly enough. His future seemed lost in the wash.

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