dispirited - Story 31544 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark slammed the laptop shut, the sound echoing in the empty study. His son, Ben, who preferred the company of books to people, was a social butterfly online. It felt surreal, like a prank. He felt a deep sense of perplexity.

He went outside to take a walk, the setting sun painting the sky in colours that felt too bright, too vibrant, too cheerful. The neighborhood dogs barked in the distance, their sounds seeming to mock him. The feeling was heavy, like a lead weight in his gut.

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