dispirited - Story 31667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the emergency generator was the only sound now, a constant reminder of their confinement. The small, cold space seemed to shrink with every passing minute. James ran a hand over his face, feeling the stubble of the day's growth. He felt the familiar ache of emptiness, a hollowness that seemed to permeate his very being.

He had always felt like this, like an outsider. The small talk that his colleague, Susan, tried to make felt like a form of torture. He wanted to scream. He wanted to go home and collapse.

"So..." Susan started, her voice faltering. He closed his eyes.

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