dispirited - Story 31299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sigh escaped David’s lips as he sat in the park. The sunset was pretty, but everything felt dull. He knew it was silly, but he'd been picturing this for weeks, the faces of his friends, the sound of the music, and now, it was all gone. He felt as if a vital piece of him had been chipped away. He lay down on the bench, staring at the sky. He had no energy to move or do anything.

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