dispirited - Story 31476 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection, a stranger peering back. The packages were always addressed to the previous tenant, Ms. Iris Thorne. They were piling up now, like a cruel joke. He had not moved from the sofa all day.

He walked to the door. The sun shone, but he couldn't feel it. He stared at the package. Her life, her belongings. What had she left behind? He didn't care.

He turned back and sat, feeling the weight of the silence. He could do nothing. She was gone.

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