dispirited - Story 31506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the broken gate, the splintered wood a testament to another escape. The air tasted of impending rain, heavy and oppressive. He used to find joy in yard work, but now it felt like an endless cycle of frustration.

He leaned against the fence, the wood digging into his back. The dog, oblivious to the damage it had caused, was now happily chewing on a fallen branch. He felt… hollow. A vast, empty space.

He heard the slam of a car door. Mrs. Gable, the dog's owner, was approaching. He didn't have the strength to even pretend to be annoyed.

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