dispirited - Story 31159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The neon glow of the arcade seemed to mock him. He watched the blinking lights and the flashing screens, each game a distraction he couldn’t seem to embrace. He was supposed to be happy. He was supposed to be celebrating.

He felt a deep, hollow emptiness. He’d met her at the interview. Liam, his friend. The prospect of winning left him with a feeling of dread. He wanted it, he really did. But the cost... that was the issue.

He sighed, dropping a handful of quarters into the coin slot of the claw machine. He watched as the metal arms grasped at plush toys. All his life, he tried hard to win. He knew the odds, yet it did not make him feel any better.

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