dispirited - Story 31266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another year, I guess," Kai mumbled to himself, the words barely audible. He watched the other gymnasts laugh and congratulate each other, their faces alight with joy. His own face felt heavy, his jaw tight. He'd trained relentlessly, pushing his body to the limit. The thought of starting again, of enduring another year of grueling practices, filled him with a weary resignation. He felt a profound sense of loss, a disconnection from the vibrant energy around him.

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