dispirited - Story 31176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another round, pal?” The bartender’s voice was a cheerful distraction. James just shook his head, pushing his untouched pint across the counter. The pub felt too loud, too bright. He wanted to disappear.

He’d found out about Oliver, his friend from college, earlier that day. Oliver, the "brilliant professor" with published books and prestigious awards? He was a delivery driver. James felt as though someone had taken a sledgehammer to his carefully constructed perception of things.

He stared into the murky depths of the beer he hadn’t touched, a profound feeling of disconnection washing over him. The world seemed a little less clear, a little less… real.

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