dispirited - Story 31408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house loomed before him, imposing and silent. He felt a sense of… flatness as he walked towards the front door. His sister, Jessica, had texted him a list of things to do, and he pushed it to the back of his mind. He couldn't imagine facing the task.

He opened the door, and the air hit him like a physical blow. The rooms were filled with shadows and the lingering scent of his grandmother's perfume. He closed his eyes, overwhelmed by a sudden wave of memories, feelings that he hadn’t fully processed.

He sank into a chair in the living room, the cushions soft and yielding, but offering him no comfort. He felt a profound lack of energy, a hollow sensation that seemed to permeate his very being. The world seemed to have lost its vibrant hues, leaving him in a world of muted tones.

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