dispirited - Story 31694 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The walk home felt longer than usual. The familiar streets, usually a comfort, now seemed to press in on him. David stared at his feet as he walked, his usual stride gone. His shoulders were slumped, his hands shoved deep into his pockets. He heard a dog barking and he flinched.

He passed the bakery, the enticing smell of freshly baked bread usually a source of joy. Today, it just felt like another reminder of the simple pleasures that seemed out of reach. He had hoped, he'd genuinely believed.

Reaching his flat, he simply slumped against the door. He didn't even bother to take off his shoes. He just slid down the wall.

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