dispirited - Story 31256 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d known. He’d felt it coming. The article, his article, published under someone else’s name. The knowledge had settled in his stomach like a stone, making him feel weighted and slow. He’d been sitting at the kitchen table, listlessly stirring his coffee, not even bothering to add sugar. The usual vibrancy of the morning, the light streaming through the window, the smell of toast, all seemed greyed over. He felt his shoulders slump, his back aching with the effort of simply existing.

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