dispirited - Story 31652 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slumped onto the park bench, the worn wood offering little comfort. The late afternoon sun cast long, skeletal shadows, mimicking the emptiness inside him. He hadn't bothered to shave, the stubble mirroring the rough edges of his mood. He’d planned to text his sister a funny meme, something to lift her spirits. His fingers fumbled, and the image, meant for family, went to his ex-girlfriend. He flinched, the screen now displaying: "Thinking of you." Regret, sharp and sudden, slammed into his chest.

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