dispirited - Story 31380 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in his limbs mirrored the weight in his mind. The new house was a monument to his failure, a reminder of what he had lost. He shuffled through the rooms, the echoes of his footsteps amplifying the hollowness of his existence. He was trapped.

He was examining the foundation of the house, inspecting the walls. He noticed a crack in the wall, it was unlike the others. He tried to brush away the dirt, and his fingers found an indentation. He pushed, the air immediately felt different. A hidden door.

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