dispirited - Story 31304 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a sudden reluctance to participate in the after-work drinks. I usually enjoyed it, the camaraderie, the casual banter. But today, the thought of pretending to be okay, of feigning enthusiasm while the new guy, with his shiny new salary, regaled us with tales of his weekend, was unbearable. My shoulders slumped. I watched the clock tick, each second a slow, agonizing drop of sand in the hourglass of my career. The office felt stifling, the air thick with unspoken truths.

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