dispirited - Story 31096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped guest room felt like a physical representation of his current state: small, confined, and utterly devoid of inspiration. John stared at the cracked paint on the ceiling, the patterns blurring into a meaningless tapestry. His old life, the one he’d worked so hard to build, felt as though it had evaporated.

His mother, bless her heart, kept offering him pep talks, her voice filled with optimism. He just nodded, unable to meet her gaze. The positivity felt like a bitter pill he couldn't swallow.

He wandered out to the backyard, the same yard where he'd spent his childhood summers. The swing set, the faded basketball hoop, all were testaments to a past he could no longer reconcile with his present. A deep, pervasive weariness settled over him.

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