dispirited - Story 31238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the ceiling, the familiar patterns of the stucco blurring before his eyes. The diary. Each notification, each comment was a fresh stab. He felt a deep hollowness, an echoing emptiness where joy and hope used to reside.

The sunlight streaming through the window seemed too bright, the world too loud. He pulled the covers over his head, seeking solace in the darkness. He felt a crushing sense of isolation, adrift in a sea of judgment.

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