dispirited - Story 31369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air in Leo’s apartment felt heavy, thick with the scent of unwashed clothes and old takeout containers. He hadn’t felt any joy in so long he had almost forgotten the sensation. He went to the mailbox, out of habit, expecting the usual barrage of junk. Instead, a birthday card. No name.

He brought the card inside, setting it on the cluttered coffee table. He didn't bother to open it. The world outside felt a million miles away. He sat down and stared at the card. He didn't move. He didn't want to.

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