dispirited - Story 31118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright stadium lights seemed to magnify the emptiness inside him. Amelia traced the familiar lines of her hockey stick, the wood feeling strangely foreign in her hand. She had always been a forward, her speed and agility her defining traits. Now, she was relegated to defense, a position that demanded caution.

She watched her teammates skate, their movements a blur of effortless grace, a stark contrast to her own sluggish pace. The coach's praise for her "willingness to adapt" felt like a cruel joke. The roar of the crowd, once a source of thrill, now felt like a distant buzz. She couldn't shake the feeling of being misplaced, lost in a game she no longer recognized.

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