dispirited - Story 31655 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio crackled, its cheerful music an irritating backdrop to his misery. He sat hunched over his desk, the fluorescent lights buzzing overhead, amplifying his sense of unease. He’d intended to text his son, a lighthearted comment about their favorite football team. His phone slipped. The message, meant for family, went to his boss: "Just feel utterly defeated." He buried his face in his hands, feeling the flush of shame creep up his neck.

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