dispirited - Story 31596 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the cursor blinking mockingly on the screen. The polite rejection felt like a punch to the gut. All the doubts he’d carefully suppressed had now surged back with vengeance. He felt the sting of tears in his eyes.

He didn’t eat dinner that night. He didn't even turn on the television. The apartment, usually a haven, now seemed to press in on him. He felt the walls closing in. He lay in bed, staring at the ceiling, sleep a distant, impossible dream.

The morning light felt harsh and unwelcome. He pulled the covers over his head, seeking refuge in the darkness.

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