dispirited - Story 31359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John grimaced as he pushed open the attic door. The task ahead felt like another hurdle in a long, endless race. He had no desire to get the job done, but was doing it out of obligation and a hollow sense of duty.

The attic was stifling, the air thick with dust and the ghosts of forgotten things. The task was not just physical; it carried the weight of everything he was not saying, everything he was failing to do. The silence amplified his internal cacophony.

He pulled open a drawer and found it filled with unfinished artwork: a sketch of a boat on a turbulent sea, another of a solitary figure. He studied them and felt a sudden longing to feel the energy of the world, a poignant ache for passion. He sat back, the sketches reflecting his own emptiness.

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