dispirited - Story 31070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked the can down the street. It clattered against the pavement, a sound that grated on his ears. The rejection. The rejection. The scholarship. All dreams. Mark had already spent the money in his mind. The thought of his friends. The parties. The future. Gone.

He stopped, head down, and felt the hot sting behind his eyes. He didn't allow the tears to come. He stared at the cracked pavement. He would get up. He would keep going. But the climb felt steeper. The path forward shrouded in shadow.

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