dispirited - Story 31419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of stale beer and desperation hung heavy in the dimly lit bar. Frank nursed his drink, the amber liquid doing little to ease the ache in his chest. His band, his dream, was crumbling. The world seemed to be turning to gray.

He was on the way home, his mood darker than the night when he found the wallet. The sum it held was significant. He could buy new equipment, book studio time, chase the faded dream once more.

He looked at the ID. A name he recognized, another musician. A face he knew, someone living the life he wanted. The temptation, the conflict, it was too much. His hand trembled.

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