dispirited - Story 31155 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, shattering the quiet of the small apartment. He stared at it, the shrill sound grating against his nerves. He knew who it was. The caller ID confirmed his suspicions. It was Maya, his friend, excited and ecstatic about something.

He let the call go to voicemail. He had no energy for small talk or congratulations, not today. He switched off the phone and stared blankly at the wall. The feeling of being completely flattened washed over him.

He felt a deep, dull ache in his chest. He stood up, aimlessly wandering through the apartment. He caught a glimpse of his reflection in the mirror, and the hollow expression of his face filled him with a sense of hopelessness.

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