dispirited - Story 31385 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the art gallery was broken only by the click of camera shutters and the muffled murmurs of the crowd, but within James, a different kind of quiet settled, a heavy, suffocating stillness. He’d come to see the new exhibit, hoping to impress, to feel a flicker of excitement, but the vibrant colours and dynamic brushstrokes were lost on him. He felt hollowed out.

He saw the woman across the room, at the very end of the exhibit. She was staring intently at the paintings, but her face was pale, her shoulders slumped. He approached her, the emptiness in him seeking some kind of connection.

“They’re… beautiful, aren’t they?” he asked, trying to sound enthusiastic.

“They would be, if he was here with me” she replied.

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