dispirited - Story 31128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air of the airport seemed to suffocate Leo. His business deal, the one that could finally secure his future, was slipping through his fingers. He felt the familiar ache in his chest, a dull, persistent throb. He stared at the flickering screens, each announcement a fresh stab of frustration. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He was trapped, helpless, and the weight of it all was almost unbearable.

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