dispirited - Story 31445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The walk back to the dorm felt longer than usual. Leo hadn't spoken to Michael, his roommate, since the discovery. The air between them was thick with unspoken words. He felt his shoulders slump. He skipped his usual gym session, opting instead to stare out the window, watching the leaves fall. The world outside looked bleak, and so did the prospect of facing another day. The vibrant energy he usually possessed had evaporated.

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