dispirited - Story 31184 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment felt thick, suffocating. David ran a hand through his hair, the familiar gesture failing to soothe the internal turmoil. He had seen the number flash on his partner's phone, heard the hurried whispers during their walks. The realization had cast a pall over everything.

He paced the living room, a caged animal. Every object in the room – the framed photographs, the shared books – now seemed to mock him. He felt betrayed, cheated. The vibrant colours of the paintings on the walls seemed to have faded.

He wanted to scream, to lash out, but the words caught in his throat. He felt paralyzed, unable to move, trapped in a silent, suffocating hell. He sank into the sofa, defeated.

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