dispirited - Story 31259 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the library was oppressive. David sat hunched over a desk, staring at the published article, now attributed to his mentor. He’d spent months perfecting it, pouring over endless books and resources. The library's usual comfort, the hushed tones and the scent of old paper, felt stifling today. He picked up his pen, then put it down, the familiar urge to write completely extinguished. He felt hollow, drained, as though all the color had been leeched from his world.

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