dispirited - Story 31267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stadium lights seemed blindingly bright. I walked past the happy families, the cheers, the flags. A wave of heat washed over me, I felt a familiar pressure behind my eyes. I'd been so sure, so certain, that I would make the team. I’d dedicated my life to this. Now, the realization of what was missing, what I wouldn't have, slammed into me. I shoved my hands in my pockets, trying to hide the tremble in my fingers.

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