dispirited - Story 31672 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of exhaustion washed over Leo as he read the news. Professor Chen, his advisor, relocating to the West Coast. A promotion, they said. Leo slumped back in his chair, the flimsy plastic creaking in protest. His carefully constructed plans seemed to dissolve, melting like snow in the unexpected spring sun.

He ran a hand through his already messy hair, leaving it even more disheveled. The research lab, once a haven of discovery, now felt like a gilded cage. He stared out the window, at the vibrant campus, at the students bustling to class. Everything felt a little too bright, a little too loud.

His throat felt tight, and he could barely swallow. His research was in its infancy. How would he possibly navigate this alone?

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