dispirited - Story 31610 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the afternoon was pressing on Michael. He stared at the photos, the faces of his ancestors staring back at him with an eerie familiarity. He hadn't slept well in days. He felt a profound sense of exhaustion.

The stories he’d been told revolved around his great-grandparents' long and happy marriage. Yet, the pictures showed something else entirely. They showed them separate, distant, with cold expressions that contradicted the tales of endless love.

Michael leaned back in his chair, feeling the sudden, unpleasant sting of tears in his eyes. He felt a bone-deep sorrow, the crushing realization that he might never truly know his family.

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