dispirited - Story 31614 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride to the venue was a silent, suffocating affair. John stared out the window, the passing scenery a blur of color he didn’t fully register. The retirement party was a family obligation, a ritual. It felt hollow.

He leaned back in his seat, the leather upholstery failing to provide comfort. He knew he'd be expected to give a toast, to express sentiments he didn't feel. The weight of it all seemed to press down on him.

He pictured his father, beaming, surrounded by well-wishers. He felt a sharp pang of something he couldn't name; perhaps envy, or maybe just a profound sense of disconnect. He gripped his hands tightly in his lap, wishing he could just be anywhere else.

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