dispirited - Story 31598 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. He let out a sigh and leaned against the doorframe, his legs felt like lead. This was his last chance. All the years he spent perfecting his craft now felt like a waste of time. He felt the heat in his cheeks.

He avoided his family's questions at dinner, picking listlessly at his food. He excused himself, retreating to his bedroom, closing the door behind him. He looked at his manuscript. It was a tangible object, but now it felt like a heavy burden.

He stared out the window, at the vast, indifferent sky.

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