dispirited - Story 31568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another rejection,” Alex muttered, staring at the screen. His birthday plans were falling apart, just like his mood. He’d planned a hiking trip, a chance to be out in nature, a quiet escape. But his friend, Dan, was throwing a pool party, promising endless fun.

He tossed his phone onto the couch, the action mirroring the frustration welling up inside. The solitude of his hike seemed less appealing now.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable surge of… something… as he glanced at the pictures of Dan's party already being posted online. He got up to make some coffee, but the simple task felt monumental. He couldn’t shake the sense of isolation, of being out of sync with everything.

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