dispirited - Story 31317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the hospital waiting room seemed to amplify the anxiety churning inside Alex. His mother’s health had been declining for months. He was waiting for news, and his heart felt like a lead weight. His mind was a mess.

Liam walked through the door, his face a mask of false cheer. He came and sat by Alex, putting a comforting hand on his knee.

"How are you feeling?" he asked.

Liam's words then. Arabic, spoken with a precision Alex had never heard before. He hadn’t known Liam had even tried. The unexpectedness of it all stole the little strength he had left. He pressed his lips together, his jaw tightening. He needed to get out.

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