dispirited - Story 31520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the coach talking to him, but the sounds were muffled, distant. He couldn't quite focus. The room seemed to spin. The words finally penetrated, and then everything changed.

The team's post-practice celebration felt like an invasion. He quickly departed, escaping the noise and forced smiles. His feet felt heavy as he walked away, his heart a lead weight in his chest.

He wandered through the park, watching the other people around him, but he felt a vast gulf between them. Their casual happiness seemed alien, the carefree laughter a distant melody. He sat down beneath a weeping willow, the shadows of its branches a fitting backdrop for his internal devastation. He buried his face in his hands, unable to stem the tide of his profound loss.

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