dispirited - Story 31697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery felt muted to him. He wandered through the exhibits, the works of art failing to ignite the spark they normally would. The anticipation of the opening, which he had looked forward to, now just felt like a chore.

He had always dreamt of moving up in the company. Getting this promotion would have been a stepping stone. Instead, he felt a strange hollowness, a complete lack of feeling.

The chatter around him seemed loud and irritating. He had to escape. He found a quiet corner and leaned against the wall, watching the people.

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