dispirited - Story 31348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was a disaster. All the forced cheerfulness and awkward small talk had left David feeling hollow. He felt like he was just going through the motions, a ghost in his own life.

He decided to escape, wandering down the street, and stumbled upon a yard sale. The whole scene felt wrong, everything felt off. He just wanted to disappear.

Then, he saw him. Sitting amidst a pile of forgotten toys was his childhood teddy, Rupert. A lump formed in his throat as he picked up the bear, feeling the familiar weight in his arms. The world seemed to fade away.

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