dispirited - Story 31670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The emergency lights cast an eerie glow on the two figures trapped within the cold, metallic box. The air felt heavy, stale, and charged with unspoken tension. Michael sat on the floor, his back against the wall, his gaze fixed on the blank metal door. He stared. He was tired.

He barely registered the chatter from his colleague, Jessica, as she attempted to fill the silence. He was so far gone, so far from the world, that nothing mattered anymore. He felt a deep sense of weariness, a profound sense of loss that even the rescue couldn't fix.

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