dispirited - Story 31622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his already messy hair, the gesture more frantic than usual. Ethan stared at the essay on his laptop screen, the words blurring before his eyes. It was supposed to be about his passion for astrophysics, but all he felt was this dull ache, a feeling that no matter how hard he tried, he wouldn’t be good enough.

His phone buzzed. A follower. Mr. Davis, his physics teacher. A knot formed in Ethan's stomach. He hadn't posted anything particularly embarrassing, just pictures of his telescope and the occasional frustrated tweet about quantum mechanics.

He quickly closed the browser tab. He just wanted to disappear. He thought about deleting everything but the thought of his dad asking him why stopped him. He could not deal with that right now.

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