dispirited - Story 31542 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his thinning hair, the gesture a worn habit. David felt a strange hollowness as he navigated the hidden profile. His son, Ethan, a quiet kid with a penchant for video games, was suddenly... glamorous. Photos with friends, places he'd never mentioned. A life lived behind a carefully constructed facade. He felt a profound sense of isolation.

He'd been so sure he knew his son. They'd shared pizza every Friday, watched the same football games. Now, he was looking at a person he didn't recognise. The silence in the house, usually a comfort, felt vast and echoing. He stared out the window, the world appearing muted and distant.

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