dispirited - Story 31586 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself wandering through the back alleys of the city, the dim light casting long shadows. Finn had been avoiding this part of town ever since "The Last Goodbye" started appearing in bars around the city. Now he stood, listening to a distorted, off-key version of his song spilling out from the open doorway of a rundown tavern.

He watched the scene unfolding from the shadows, the band completely butchering the chords. They weren't even playing it correctly. He wanted to yell, to scream for them to stop, but the words wouldn't come. He felt strangely detached, as if watching a bad dream play out.

He turned and slowly walked away. His shoes dragged on the pavement. The city swallowed him whole.

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