dispirited - Story 31170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the afternoon was pressing on him. Thomas stood outside, a cigarette unlit in his hand. The joyous music and excited chatter felt like a mocking soundtrack to his current state of being. The wedding, a celebration of new beginnings, highlighted his own stagnation.

He scanned the crowd, trying to appear nonchalant. Then he saw her. Emily. She was across the lawn, talking to some other guests. She looked serene, beautiful. He felt a sudden, sharp pang of something he couldn't name.

He dropped the cigarette and brought his hands up to cover his face. He felt like he wanted to disappear, to melt into the shadows. He took a shaky breath, then another, the air feeling thin and inadequate. He turned and started walking away, his shoulders slumped.

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