dispirited - Story 31167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses, the incessant chatter, the vibrant colours of the floral arrangements—all of it seemed to amplify the silence inside him. Michael stood by himself near the bar, watching the other guests dance, their happiness a sharp contrast to the hollowness he felt.

Suddenly, his eyes locked on her. Sarah. She was radiant, her hair pulled up in an elegant bun, a smile playing on her lips. She looked... happy. And she wasn't alone.

He felt a sudden flush of heat, a tightness in his chest. He took a long, unsteady breath, trying to calm the racing of his pulse. He'd imagined this moment countless times, but never with this level of helplessness. He needed to get out of there.

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