dispirited - Story 31174 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office felt stuffy, the air thick with the scent of stale coffee and unspoken disappointments. Michael stared at the spreadsheet on his computer screen, the numbers swimming before his eyes. It was difficult to focus. The news about Ben had been a crushing blow.

Ben, the “venture capitalist” funding groundbreaking startups? He was a cashier at a grocery store. Michael’s stomach twisted with a strange, unpleasant feeling. He had been looking forward to Ben's advice about his own new business venture. Now? He didn't know what to think.

He closed his eyes, leaning back in his chair. The weariness was all-consuming.

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