dispirited - Story 31316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of exhaustion washed over Daniel as he climbed the stairs, the effort of each step a monumental task. The air in their apartment felt thick and still, heavy with unspoken words. He could hear Maria in the kitchen, her movements quick and efficient.

He entered the kitchen, his shoulders slumped. She turned, a plate in her hand.

“Dinner’s ready,” she said, her voice bright.

Then came the words, a stream of elegant phrases, a song in his mother tongue. Polish. Her pronunciation was flawless. His eyes burned and he turned away, unable to meet her gaze. The food was there, but he knew he couldn't eat it.

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