dispirited - Story 31149 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar weight of the barbell felt alien and heavy. He grunted, his breath catching in his throat. His mentor, Coach Miller, had built him up, pushing him beyond his limits. Now, with Miller gone, the gym felt sterile, the atmosphere cold. Each rep was a struggle, each movement labored. He couldn't muster the usual fire, the ambition. His muscles ached, but the ache inside was far deeper, a feeling of being unmoored.

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