dispirited - Story 31650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He woke up with a start, the weight of the news pressing down on him. The world outside his window felt cold and gray, mirroring his own mood.

He pushed the elevator button, but the wait felt like an eternity. The building's atmosphere was stifling. He heard the announcement from the HR department, confirming the sale.

He moved about the office, finding it difficult to hold a conversation. Each word felt like a lie, each smile an act of desperation. He felt like the ground beneath his feet was disappearing.

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