dispirited - Story 31696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Congratulations, Daniel!” the words from his boss reverberated in his ears. The words themselves held nothing but well wishes, but in this context, they were poison. He forced a smile, but his mouth felt tight and unnatural. He didn’t want to be in this meeting.

He retreated to his cubicle, the walls closing in. The congratulations felt like a punch to the gut. He felt the sting of tears prick his eyes. He had worked so hard. For what?

He stared at his computer screen, the bright light making his head ache. He knew he had to get back to work. But the motivation was gone.

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