dispirited - Story 31106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office printer, usually a source of minor annoyance, now seemed to embody the futility of his efforts. The loud whirring and clacking echoed the emptiness in Kevin's heart as he watched Brian, his replacement, struggle to load paper. Kevin’s normally quick temper seemed to have deserted him, replaced by a weary indifference.

"Here, let me..." Kevin offered, but his voice was weak. He showed Brian how to feed the paper, the simple act a reminder of his own competence. A competence that apparently wasn't worth keeping.

He felt the familiar throb behind his temples. He just wanted to go home. The thought of this place, this job, this office, filled him with a profound ennui.

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