dispirited - Story 31415 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the antique shop was a stark contrast to the cacophony of his thoughts. Elias, usually energized by the old books and forgotten treasures, felt a dull ache behind his eyes. His own collection had dwindled, his passion extinguished by the constant pressure. He was trying to sell one last item, but was getting nowhere.

He found it under a display case. A worn, leather wallet, bulging with money. The temptation was immediate, the allure of sudden wealth. He could invest in something new, start fresh, escape the weight of his unfulfilled dreams.

He fingered the money. His gaze dropped to the ID, a familiar face with eyes that looked as lost as his own. His chest felt constricted. His shoulders sagged.

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