dispirited - Story 31479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house pressed in on him, a suffocating blanket. He shuffled towards the door, his movements slow and deliberate. A package lay there. "Mr. David Carter," it read. The name of the man who had abandoned this place long ago.

He stood and looked at it. He was done. His body ached. He didn't know why he felt the way he did. He didn't want to open it. The world had gone too far.

He went to the sofa, and sank back into its worn cushions. Carter. Whoever he was. He was just another ghost in the tapestry of their lives.

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