dispirited - Story 31157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park felt empty, the autumn air crisp and biting. He kicked a fallen leaf across the cracked pavement, watching it flutter away. He'd been avoiding Daniel all day. The text messages went unanswered, the calls ignored. The truth was, he didn’t know what to say.

The interview was looming over him. He felt as though he was a child again, about to be graded on a test he didn’t prepare for. He clenched his fists, the feeling of vulnerability a physical burden.

He sat on a bench, watching the leaves swirl in the wind. The world looked bleak, gray, devoid of color. He sighed, the sound lost in the rustling of the trees, and closed his eyes.

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