dispirited - Story 31109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As he explained the complexities of the project, a wave of weariness washed over Peter. He watched the new hire, Alex, taking notes with a focused intensity. He felt a strange disconnect, like he was observing someone else's life.

“And if this happens…?” Alex asked, his brow furrowed in concentration. Peter just shrugged, offering a perfunctory explanation. He felt the weight of the years, the endless meetings, the unfulfilled promises. The task felt like an anchor.

The office was too loud, too bright, too… everything. He wished he could just vanish. He felt utterly drained.

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