dispirited - Story 31269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the park bench, kicking at the loose gravel. He’d told his parents he'd made the baseball team. He'd even let his mother buy him a new bat, a shiny chrome thing that now felt like a lead weight in the back of his truck. He imagined their faces when he told the truth. He closed his eyes, the image of their happy expressions turning hollow. He stared at the ground, the dust swirling around his shoes.

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