dispirited - Story 31450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept properly in days. The image of the open journal haunted his waking hours. The casual betrayal of trust, the violation of his private space, had taken its toll. He avoided his roommate, David, every chance he got. The usually bright common room of the dorm now felt like a prison cell. He'd lost interest in his studies, the once-exciting prospect of his future now felt dimmed. He just sat, lost in the shadows, the silence of the room deafening.

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