dispirited - Story 31199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was quiet, too quiet. Michael sat on the porch swing, the rhythmic creaking a dull metronome for his mood. His son, Sam, ran outside, bursting with news.

“Dad, Mr. Thompson is my history teacher! He’s known for being really hard, but he makes it fun!” Michael felt his insides clench. Mr. Thompson. The man who had made him feel like an idiot, the man who had publicly humiliated him in front of the class.

He forced a smile. He was supposed to be happy for Sam, but the thought of his son facing the same scrutiny, the same judging gaze, made him feel trapped. He wished desperately to protect him from that. The swing felt heavy, the air thick with unspoken dread.

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