dispirited - Story 31284 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the hospital room seemed to close in around David. The air was thick with the scent of antiseptic and the low hum of machines. His hand rested on his father's, frail and paper-thin. A ping. A Facebook request. From Kevin. The very person who had made his school days a living hell.

He almost laughed. Of all the things he had to worry about, this was the strangest. He felt strangely drained, as though all his energy had been siphoned away. He stared at his father's sleeping face.

He didn't click anything. He closed the laptop. The beeping of the machines seemed to grow louder, filling the silence.

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