dispirited - Story 31664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The claustrophobia was starting to hit hard. Thomas felt his chest tighten, his breath coming in shallow gasps. He wiped his clammy palms on his trousers, the movement failing to bring any relief. He hated this. He hated everything right now.

He stared at Brenda, the office manager, who was nervously fiddling with her necklace. He knew, despite himself, that she was trying to be optimistic, but it felt hollow. He didn't want to play along.

"This is just my luck," he mumbled under his breath, wishing he had skipped work and gone back to bed. The weight of his unfulfilled ambitions felt heavy in the confined space.

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