dispirited - Story 31263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you didn't make it," her dad said, his voice softer than usual. Liam shrugged, staring at the chipped paint on the basketball court. The tryouts had felt like the culmination of everything he'd worked for. He'd pictured himself in the starting lineup, hearing the roar of the crowd. Now, the weight of his failure pressed down on him, making it hard to breathe. He kicked a pebble across the court, the sound oddly loud in the empty space.

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