dispirited - Story 31709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant pressure to perform had depleted Michael. He felt the weight of his responsibilities bearing down on him, and the spark that had once driven him was now reduced to a flickering ember. The thought of facing another meeting made him feel listless.

Suddenly, a burst of laughter pierced the silence. It was Lisa, waving a faded newsletter. "Anyone else go to Camp Silver Creek? The canoe trip was amazing!"

Michael barely registered the conversation, his attention occupied with the overwhelming workload. The noise was only another irritation.

"Michael?" Lisa asked, her eyes sparkling. "Did you ever go to Silver Creek?"

He closed his eyes, fighting the urge to retreat further into himself. The name sparked a distant memory. He nodded, a slow, almost imperceptible movement. "Yeah, I did." The darkness seemed a little less encompassing.

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