dispirited - Story 31291 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mimicking the thrumming in Elias's chest. He'd envisioned this evening for weeks, the clinking of glasses, the chorus of "Happy Birthday," the warm embrace of friends and family. Now, the floral arrangement he'd picked out sat forlornly on the kitchen counter, its bright colors a mockery of the gloom settling over him. He slumped onto a stool, the weight of the day suddenly crushing him. He’d put so much energy into making sure everything was perfect.

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