dispirited - Story 31288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling city felt overwhelming. The noise, the crowds, the endless stream of faces… It was all too much for Ben today. He felt lost and insignificant. A new friend request. From Jessica. The girl who used to spread rumors about him behind his back, making him feel like a pariah at school.

He picked at a loose thread on his jeans. He felt a wave of cold wash over him. His breath came in shallow gasps. Why now? Why did these things have to happen all at once?

He turned off his phone and retreated to his tiny apartment, where the silence was a comfort and a cage. He locked the door and lay down, staring at the ceiling.

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