dispirited - Story 31430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He pinned the invitation to the bulletin board, a colourful spot in an otherwise drab corner of the kitchen. Henry stared at the announcement, and felt his appetite fade. He knew this would not be fun.

The house felt like a cage, the walls closing in on him. He hadn't been sleeping well, and the bags under his eyes were a testament to his sleepless nights. He poured himself a cup of coffee, the steam doing nothing to warm him.

He imagined the conversations, the inevitable comparisons. He closed his eyes, a feeling of despondency washing over him, and slowly sipped his coffee. He was not looking forward to the next few months.

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