dispirited - Story 31566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the calendar, the date circled in bold red. The impending doom had settled deep in his stomach. His party, a sophisticated wine tasting, felt like a terrible mistake. Meanwhile, his friend Josh was hosting a raucous carnival.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture doing little to alleviate the feeling of being trapped. He’d poured his time and effort into the planning, but the thought of it gave him a knot in his stomach.

He paced his apartment, restless and ill at ease. The anticipation of his own party was replaced by a sense of dread. He glanced at his reflection in the mirror; the person staring back seemed drained, deflated. He longed for the noise, the chaos, the sheer fun of the carnival.

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