dispirited - Story 31406 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the house. The paint was peeling, the roof needed repair, the garden was a mess. His sister, Sarah, was talking about the possibilities, the renovations, the potential. He just felt… the life had been sucked out of him.

He kicked a loose stone across the cracked pavement. He wanted to feel the thrill of potential, the excitement of ownership. Instead, he felt overwhelmed, the responsibility a heavy cloak. He turned away from the house, his shoulders slumping.

He wanted to run, to escape the weight of it all. He thought about the work that needed to be done, the time it would take, the money it would cost. He felt… the world seemed devoid of color.

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