dispirited - Story 31296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"That's…fantastic," Liam managed, forcing a smile that didn't reach his eyes. His carefully crafted persona of stoicism, usually a shield, now felt like a heavy, suffocating cloak. The joy he’d been carrying inside him, the bubbly anticipation, had simply…vanished. He felt a deep, pervasive weariness settle over him, a sense of resignation that made him want to simply curl up and disappear. The room, which he'd previously thought would be filled with life, now seemed vast and empty.

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