dispirited - Story 31372 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paint fumes of the new house only amplified Leo’s heavy mood. Each day felt like slogging through mud. He'd tried painting the guest room a cheery yellow, a futile attempt to infuse the place with optimism, but the color seemed to mock him. Everything felt wrong.

He wandered into the dusty, unfinished basement, kicking a stray pile of lumber. He was going to start to try and make a home theatre, but he didn't even have the energy to unpack the stereo.

A draft snaked across his ankles. He followed it, his shoulders slumping. Behind a rickety bookcase, he found a section of the wall that felt unusually cold. He pushed against it, and a door, cleverly concealed, swung inward with a protesting creak. The air inside felt stagnant, laden with secrets.

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