dispirited - Story 31556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a profound lack of energy as I walked through the door. The familiar scent of coffee brewing usually perked me up, but today it just added to the general listlessness. My freelance gigs had dried up, the bills were piling up, and the future stretched before me like a vast, empty canvas.

My roommate, Emily, was already in the kitchen, beaming. The object of her current obsession was a playful puppy. The mere thought of taking care of a puppy – the walks, the feeding, the constant vigilance – made my chest tighten.

"Isn’t he adorable?" Emily chirped, showing me pictures on her phone. I forced a smile, but my stomach clenched.

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