dispirited - Story 31459 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam, usually the picture of composure, paced his apartment. The DNA results had stripped away the foundation of his life. He was adrift, unmoored from the anchors of his past. He felt like a ghost, wandering through a life that wasn't truly his.

He stopped in front of the mirror, studying his face, searching for a familiar trait, a resemblance to someone, anyone. Finding none, he began to feel a sensation as if his face no longer belonged to him. The reflection felt foreign, a stranger staring back.

He grabbed his car keys and drove, anywhere. He turned the radio up, trying to drown out the voice of doubt, but it was useless. The vast, empty highway mirrored the emptiness inside him.

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