dispirited - Story 31557 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The closing of the cafe door was like a release valve, a brief respite from the clatter and chaos. But as soon as the door closed, a different sort of tension filled me. I was tired, profoundly so, both physically and emotionally. The thought of the argument about the lizard awaiting me back at the apartment filled my chest with lead.

My roommate, Chris, adored reptiles and wanted a chameleon, a creature of intricate beauty and particular needs. I, on the other hand, felt a sluggish resistance to the idea of more responsibility. The idea of another living thing relying on me was a mountain I just couldn't face.

I walked through the door, my shoulders hunched, anticipating the usual discussion.

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