dispirited - Story 31338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. "The Rusty Spoon Diner…closing." Robert stared, the words printed in bold across his screen. The diner, a haven of greasy goodness, a refuge from the everyday grind, a place of comfort for years.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable anger. He threw his phone across the room, the impact rattling the frame on the wall. He paced his apartment, unable to sit still, the silence amplifying the thudding in his chest. A sense of…loss.

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