dispirited - Story 31246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gym felt oppressive. He had always been so focused on his health, meticulously tracking his progress. Now, the weight machines seemed to taunt him, reminders of the body that might not be his own. He forced himself to lift, but his movements were sluggish, his muscles felt leaden. The other gym-goers’ cheerful chatter grated on his nerves. He felt a profound sense of isolation, even amidst the crowd. He quit early.

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