dispirited - Story 31626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You okay, buddy?" Marcus's older brother asked from the doorway. He was staring at his phone, his face a mask of frustration. Marcus shrugged. He wasn't okay.

He saw the notification. Mr. Peterson, the band director, had followed him on Instagram. He’d poured his heart into his music, but lately, he just didn't care.

He buried his face in his hands. He felt like he was constantly failing. He’d stopped practicing weeks ago. Now, he would be judged. He had a knot in his stomach. He wasn't excited about it. He wished it would all just go away.

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