dispirited - Story 31618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to the retirement party seemed endless. Ben clenched the steering wheel, his knuckles white. The thought of the evening ahead filled him with a weariness that settled deep in his bones.

He parked the car, the noise of the party already filtering through the closed windows. He took a deep, shaky breath, trying to summon some semblance of enthusiasm. The task felt insurmountable.

He imagined the speech he’d prepared, a carefully crafted summary of his father's life's work. It felt like a formality, a required performance. He got out of the car, the air feeling heavy on his shoulders.

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