dispirited - Story 31639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the porch swing, the rhythmic creak a mockery of his inner state. The letter, a relic from his past, lay discarded on the ground. The words, written to his first love, filled him with a certain heaviness, a lack of enthusiasm.

He remembered the intensity of those feelings, the unwavering belief in a shared future. Now, the future seemed distant and uncertain. His gaze drifted towards the horizon, where the setting sun painted the sky with vibrant colours. None of the colours seemed to reach 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