dispirited - Story 31628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of burnt popcorn hung in the air. David sat on his bed, the unfinished video game controller in his lap. He’d lost interest in his favorite pastime. It felt like he was watching his life pass him by.

A notification. Mr. Rodriguez, his computer science teacher, had requested to follow him. David clenched his jaw. He could feel a rising panic.

He felt deflated. He had been pretending to enjoy the subject. He’d been trying to be positive. He just wanted to shut it all down. His energy had been depleted.

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