dispirited - Story 31468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the kitchen felt heavy with unspoken truths. His sister, Carol, was bustling around, packing a box. The antique silver tea service, a gift from their grandmother, was headed to the auction. David watched her, his movements slow and deliberate. He felt detached, as if he were an observer in his own life. The clinking of the silver as she packed it sounded like tiny, mournful bells. The edges of his vision felt blurred.

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