dispirited - Story 31470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the old portrait, his great-grandmother staring back at him with an unwavering gaze. His cousin, Mark, had made the pronouncement: the portrait, along with all the other family heirlooms, was to be sold. The news made him feel as if he had been punched. The world swam before his eyes. He sat in the worn armchair, feeling an immense, crushing sadness that threatened to overwhelm him completely. He felt himself shrinking.

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