dispirited - Story 31692 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He avoided eye contact, shuffling the papers on his desk with a deliberate slowness. The clock on the wall seemed to be mocking him, its hands moving with a cruel certainty towards the end of the day. Mark had poured months of late nights and weekend work into this – the project, the company, the *possibility*.

He felt a tightness in his chest. A constant, dull ache. Sarah’s bubbly energy as she walked past, heading out, only served to amplify his mood. She was the other contender. He knew her, her ambitions, her charm.

His stomach twisted into a knot. He glanced at the application he’d made, folded neatly in his drawer. It felt useless now. He slammed the drawer shut.

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