dispirited - Story 31179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun, as bright as it was, couldn't seem to penetrate the gloom that settled over Daniel. He'd been looking forward to the BBQ with his friends, but the revelation about his friend, Alex, had stolen all his enthusiasm. Alex, the “CEO” of a tech startup? He worked in a factory.

Daniel sat on the porch step, watching the other guests arrive. He knew he should join them, but the effort felt insurmountable. He just couldn't bring himself to talk.

The laughter, the chatter, the smell of grilling burgers… none of it reached him. The air seemed thin, as if he were trying to breathe in an empty vacuum.

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