dispirited - Story 31229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt suffocating. The verdict, delivered with cold finality, felt like a physical blow. Thomas walked out of the building into the glaring sunlight, his shoulders slumped, his steps slow. He felt his life unravel.

He went to his childhood home. In the basement, a box lay. "Thomas's Education." The handwriting was his mother's, the familiarity a source of both pain and comfort.

He pulled it open. Inside, a collection of assignments and projects. He held a science fair project, his notes scribbled on construction paper. He felt a wave of sadness, but something more. A spark of resilience, an echo of the boy he used to be.

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