dispirited - Story 31466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the faded photograph in his hands. His uncle, in the crisp uniform of a soldier, grinned back at him. His uncle's old war medals, once gleaming bright, were to be sold. It was necessary, his cousin had told him, with a detached clinicality. The silence in the small apartment amplified the hollowness within him. He felt as though the world had drained of colour, leaving him adrift in a sea of grey. He barely registered the passing of time.

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