dispirited - Story 31332 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No way,” Mark muttered, staring at the handwritten sign taped to the door. "CLOSED." He’d walked the familiar route, anticipation bubbling in his chest, ready for the usual Tuesday night burger and fries at "The Greasy Spoon." Now his stomach churned. He ran a hand through his hair, finding it plastered to his forehead with sweat.

The neon sign above flickered erratically, casting long, distorted shadows. He kicked at a loose piece of sidewalk, his energy fizzling out like a punctured balloon. He had been planning to bring Sarah. Now, where would he take her? Where would he take *himself*? He just felt…flat.

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