dispirited - Story 31319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt cold, even with the fireplace blazing. John sat on the couch, the remote control resting limp in his hand. The news was on, but he wasn’t watching. His life was in a rut, and his future was opaque.

Mary appeared from the kitchen, a tray of tea in her hands.

"Are you hungry?" she asked, her voice gentle.

Then, he heard the sounds. A torrent of words he understood but had never associated with her. Her Japanese was smooth, the intonation perfect. John felt suddenly lost. He looked away, his face turning pale.

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