dispirited - Story 31389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The comedy club was packed, the air thick with the smell of stale beer and anticipation. Liam found himself slouched in his seat, the laughter of the crowd grating on his nerves. He'd been looking forward to this, a night out, a chance to escape. But his girlfriend was a no-show.

He saw a woman in the corner of the room, looking at him. She was gesturing for him to come over.

He slowly walked over to her.

"I think we both know why you're here" she said.

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