dispirited - Story 31329 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the door of his apartment, the force of the action echoing in the silent space. Chef Antoine threw the newspaper onto the table, the image of the critic's damning words mocking him. His apartment, once a haven, now felt like a prison. He kicked at a stray shoe, the frustration churning in his stomach.

The very thought of cooking, of facing the heat of the kitchen and the scrutiny of the diners, filled him with dread. He walked into his kitchen, saw his knives, and the instruments of his trade, and felt sick. He felt utterly and completely defeated, his dreams and aspirations lying in ruin around him.

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