dispirited - Story 31089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the back door, the sound echoing through the empty house. The fence. Another boundary, another reason to feel… he couldn’t even describe it. He kicked a discarded newspaper across the floor.

He needed to do something, anything, to burn off this pent-up energy, this… heaviness. He considered going for a run, but the thought filled him with dread. He didn't want to leave his apartment.

He slumped onto the couch, staring at the ceiling. The silence of the house was oppressive, yet somehow welcoming. He felt a profound sense of… nothing.

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