dispirited - Story 31585 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio blared from the open car window. Noah, hunched over the steering wheel, slammed his fist on the dashboard. He recognized the song immediately. His song, "Dust and Rust," now slicked up with auto-tune and a generic pop beat.

A wave of intense disappointment surged through him. He pulled over to the side of the road, the gravel crunching under his tires. It felt like someone had just stolen a part of his soul.

The pop song was a poor substitute for his authentic, soul-baring original. He took a deep breath, fighting back the frustration. He felt he had no agency, no control. He sat there, staring blankly at the road, the melody a constant, unwelcome reminder of his failure.

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