dispirited - Story 31513 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm sorry, Ben," Coach Riley had said, his voice softer than Ben had ever heard. The words hung in the air, a finality that settled over Ben like a shroud. He stood there, stiff and unmoving, a statue in the aftermath of a demolition.

He hadn’t spoken a word since the news. His usual boisterous energy had vanished, leaving behind only an unsettling quiet. His teammates avoided his gaze, offering awkward pats on the shoulder that felt like slaps.

The ride home with his dad was silent, the familiar sounds of the car strangely muted. He stared out the window, watching the world blur past, each tree, each house, a reminder of the life he was losing. When they arrived, he simply got out of the car, went inside, and closed his bedroom door.

He felt as though he were trapped in a dark, silent room.

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