dispirited - Story 31305 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paperwork in front of him remained untouched, the spreadsheet a meaningless jumble of figures. He was supposed to be preparing the quarterly report, but the numbers swam before his eyes, a mocking reflection of his stagnant career. He knew, with a certainty that settled like a stone in his gut, that the new project lead was getting paid a lot more. He couldn’t bring himself to care. The motivation to do his best had evaporated, replaced by a profound weariness. He closed his eyes, the image of his boss’s smiling face flashing behind his eyelids, and sighed.

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