dispirited - Story 31084 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Perfect!" The word grated on Leo's ears. He was on his back deck, watching Mr. Henderson inspect the newly erected fence. It was pristine, gleaming, dividing his yard from the one next door. Another dividing line.

He’d barely slept. Nighttime was the worst. He’d stared at the ceiling for hours, wrestling with thoughts he couldn’t seem to tame. Now, daylight offered little relief. His coffee tasted like ash.

The men packed up their tools. He watched them go, a hollow feeling spreading through him. He sank into his deck chair, the plastic biting into his skin. He wondered if the world even noticed he was there.

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