dispirited - Story 31624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain hammered against the windowpane, mirroring the relentless drumming in Liam’s head. He should be excited about the upcoming debate competition, but the thought of it made his shoulders slump. He just didn't want to get up.

He glanced at his phone. Another follower. Mrs. Chen, his debate coach. His heart sank. He hadn’t been posting anything too revealing, but even the mundane posts felt exposed, now.

He didn't know what to do. Maybe he should just drop out. He ran his hand through his hair. He could not face Mrs. Chen's disappointment. He didn't think he could face anything.

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