dispirited - Story 31524 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He skipped his usual morning run. The city, usually a symphony of sights and sounds, felt muted, dull. He sat on the edge of his bed, staring out the window at the morning traffic. The news report was still fresh in his mind. The author he’d devoured, the one whose grit and determination had inspired him, had built their career on stolen words. He felt his hands clench into fists, a wave of disappointment washing over him. This morning’s coffee tasted metallic.

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