dispirited - Story 31261 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The noticeboard in the gym swam before Leo's eyes. He squinted, trying to make the names on the list coalesce. The tryouts had been brutal, a week of sweat and strained muscles. He'd poured his heart into every sprint, every jump, every drill. Now, staring at the roster for the varsity track team, his stomach twisted. His name wasn't there. He felt a hollowness bloom in his chest, a vacuum where excitement and anticipation had been. He turned away, the weight of his gym bag suddenly feeling unbearable.

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