dispirited - Story 31335 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I don’t believe it,” Frank said, his voice a low growl. He reread the sign, the letters blurring slightly. "Mama Rosa's - Thank you for 40 years." Forty years! It was a fixture. It was where he always went to celebrate, to commiserate, to just…be.

He walked past the closed doors, each step heavy. He felt a leaden weight in his chest. His shoulders slumped. He had no appetite, no inclination to do anything. The city felt different, colder somehow, without the warm, inviting glow of Mama Rosa's. He felt a sudden, profound loneliness.

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