dispirited - Story 31485 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter sat unopened on the dashboard. It was from his father, offering to help with the arrangements. David pushed it aside, the gesture making him feel no better. He watched the house from a distance, the sun casting long shadows across the vacant lot.

The house had always been a sanctuary, a safe haven from the chaos of the outside world. Now, it was just a shell, a monument to a past he couldn't reclaim.

He felt a deep exhaustion settle over him. He wanted to scream, to rage, to fight against the inevitable. Instead, he just sat there, the engine idling, the world turning without him.

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