dispirited - Story 31169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wedding, a riot of colour and sound, felt oppressive to Henry. He stood near the entrance, trying to look engaged in a conversation with a distant cousin, but the words felt like they were bouncing around his head without making any impact. The joyous event was a painful reminder of his own romantic shortcomings.

His gaze drifted across the room, and then he stopped. There, laughing with the best man, was Clara, his ex-girlfriend. He felt all the blood rush from his head. The cousin’s voice faded away. He couldn't move. He felt like his feet were rooted to the floor.

He knew he should say something, anything. But the words were caught in his throat. He looked for an escape route, but the room seemed to have shrunk, the exits sealed. He forced a smile and turned back to the cousin, but the effort felt hollow.

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