dispirited - Story 31669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold seeping into the elevator car mirrored the frigidity that had taken hold within him. David stared at the elevator's closed door, the numbers of the floors that passed on the digital screen mocking his inertia. He had been looking forward to this job. He felt as though the job, and the day, were going to be a disaster.

He didn't bother looking at Sarah, his coworker, who had begun humming a tune. The world felt muffled, distant, and utterly devoid of colour.

"Wonderful," David muttered.

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