dispirited - Story 31265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in Ethan’s hand. He'd rehearsed his congratulatory speech for his best friend, who was on the team. He’d practiced the right tone, the right level of enthusiasm. The team list, taped to his fridge, mockingly showcased the names of the successful players. His hands clenched into fists, then relaxed, his muscles feeling weak. He’d felt such confidence during the swimming trials, a surety that he belonged. Now, that assurance had crumbled.

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