dispirited - Story 31410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the past seemed to settle around him, a heavy blanket he couldn't shake off. He watched his sister, Chloe, excitedly take photos of the house, a plan already taking shape in her mind. He, on the other hand, felt… muted.

He wandered through the rooms slowly, each step echoing in the sudden quiet. He stopped in the hallway, staring at the pictures that lined the walls, each a reminder of a life he would never know as fully as those who had lived it. The weight seemed to be crushing him.

He leaned against the wall, the cool plaster seeping through his shirt. He was supposed to feel something, anything, but all he felt was a dull ache, a feeling of… detachment. The day stretched before him, an endless expanse of tasks he had no desire to undertake.

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