dispirited - Story 31636 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the small, cluttered room. The letter, discovered in the back of a drawer, felt like a physical burden in his hand. Mark felt a sudden chill, a sense of something lost. He looked at the words, his younger self spilling out his heart, filled with excitement about life.

The letter was a cry for help. A younger version of himself had faced a crisis, and the current Mark wished he could go back in time to ease the pain. The bright words, once full of hope, now felt hollow. He sank onto the bed, the weight of the past pressing down on him.

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