dispirited - Story 31546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, the cursor blinking mockingly. His daughter, Jessica, usually so eager to help with chores, had a hidden online presence. It felt like a riddle he couldn't solve, like a language he couldn’t understand. He felt an emptiness that settled deep in his core.

He walked to the fridge, unable to remember why he was there. The mundane tasks of everyday life felt suddenly pointless. The news from the account was sharp, like a stab wound, and he felt as though all the air had been sucked out of the 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