dispirited - Story 31202 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slumped onto the porch steps, the cold seeping through his jeans. Rain slicked the asphalt, mirroring the sheen of tears he refused to let fall. The silence was deafening, broken only by the drip, drip, drip of water from the eaves. His stomach churned with a familiar, gnawing emptiness. The tow truck, a hulking metal beast, had vanished, taking with it the last vestiges of his small victories. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture clumsy and 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