dispirited - Story 31707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless demands of the job had finally ground Alex down. Every task seemed monumental. The deadlines felt impossible. He felt a deep sense of discouragement, which affected his productivity. He leaned his head into his hands.

Suddenly, a voice, filled with excited energy, broke his concentration. "Hey, everyone! Remember Camp Whispering Pines? I found a picture from the talent show! It's hilarious!" It was Sofia, holding up a photo.

Alex barely glanced up, feeling too weighed down to participate. The mention of camp was just noise.

"Alex? Weren't you at Whispering Pines too?" Sofia asked, her voice a mixture of surprise and genuine curiosity.

He sighed, pushing back his chair. The world felt dull, grey, and difficult to comprehend. He finally responded, “Yeah, I was.” A faint memory of the sun on his face surfaced, and with it, a trace of something other than despair.

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