dispirited - Story 31295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost forgotten, and that was the worst part. Michael realized this, as the familiar pang of his stomach tightened. He’d gone to the store to get the wine, the good stuff, the one that everyone liked. He felt suddenly foolish, exposed, as if the world was watching him and laughing. He put the bottle back on the shelf, his shoulders slumping. He’d let his guard down; he’d allowed himself to feel anticipation, and now… well, now he felt like a deflated balloon.

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