dispirited - Story 31245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in his hand. He’d planned to call his brother, but the words wouldn't come. He’d always prided himself on his strength, his ability to weather any storm. He felt a deep, inner weariness, like he'd been running a marathon and was suddenly told the finish line didn't exist. He stared out the window, watching the rain blur the world outside. The world was moving on, and he felt stuck, frozen in a place he didn't want 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