dispirited - Story 31645 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt interminably long. Each floor seemed to hold a new level of dread. He felt a throbbing tension in his temples. He was late, again. He couldn't shake the feeling of impending doom.

He watched the news, a vague sense of unease creeping up his spine. Then, he heard the whispers near the vending machines. “Acquisition.” “Layoffs.” The words hung in the air, heavy and poisonous.

His lunch remained untouched on his desk. He stared at it, unable to muster even a semblance of hunger. The world, at least the world of his job, seemed gray and lifeless.

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