dispirited - Story 31236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gym felt like a prison. Mark slammed his weights down, the clang echoing in the cavernous space. He hadn’t come for exercise; he was here to punish himself. The diary. A betrayal. He felt a raw, stinging hurt, like a fresh wound.

He glared at his reflection in the mirror, despising the image staring back. The muscles he’d worked so hard to build suddenly felt insignificant, a flimsy shield against the humiliation. He wanted to scream, to lash out, to somehow reverse the damage. He felt like a shattered vase, the pieces scattered and irrecoverable.

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