dispirited - Story 31496 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The workshop was a mess. Tools scattered, half-finished projects abandoned. Liam stared at the notice, the patent rejection, like it was a cobra. Someone had beaten him to the punch with his revolutionary new bicycle design. He felt every ounce of the fight he had in him, his entire being, had just been sucked out.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture almost aggressive. The image of the other applicant, a cold corporate entity, flashed through his mind, and a surge of anger coursed through him. It was unfair, a blatant disregard for his passion, his effort.

He wanted to scream, to smash something, anything to release the pressure building inside him. He kicked at a stray wrench, then let out a defeated sigh.

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