dispirited - Story 31230 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a punch to the gut. The world was burning, and Sam felt helpless, paralyzed by the enormity of it all. He paced his apartment, unable to find solace or a moment of peace.

His gaze fell upon a box in the storage room. "Sam's Educational Journey," the label read. His mother, her handwriting a familiar comfort. He sat down and opened it.

He found his essays, his art projects, his report cards, each a tangible echo of a past self. He picked up a drawing of a tree, its leaves a vibrant green. A tiny, fragile sense of hope bloomed within him.

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