dispirited - Story 31178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was quiet, the car filled only with the hum of the engine and the radio static. John kept replaying the phone call in his head. His friend, Peter, the “high-powered lawyer” with the corner office? He was a paralegal.

John’s jaw clenched. He’d always looked up to Peter, envied his supposed success. He felt the familiar weight of disappointment in his chest.

The scenery blurring by as he headed home left him with a bitter taste in his mouth. He felt the energy of the world around him slowly drain away.

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