dispirited - Story 31090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon light cast long shadows, stretching across the yard. John watched the final touches being made to the fence, a new division. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath. His lungs felt too heavy for him.

He’d stopped making an effort. He let the dishes pile up in the sink, the laundry languish in the hamper. The house was a mess, mirroring the chaos within.

He opened his eyes, the world a blurry wash of color. He stood still. He felt like he was falling.

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