dispirited - Story 31726 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the garage smelled of stale gasoline and forgotten dreams. Mark felt the familiar pressure in his chest, a dull throb that had been his constant companion. He was supposed to be cleaning, but the prospect of it was crushing. He'd decided to start with his dad's things.

He sifted through a dusty box filled with old tools and automotive manuals. His fingers brushed against a stiff piece of paper, a typed letter. Resignation. Dated from a job he knew his dad had loathed. The formal tone of the letter was contrasted by the emotion it evoked.

He felt the sting of the letter’s message. This was the same feeling he’d been fighting. A sense of being trapped, and desperately wanting something else. He ran a hand through his hair, a wave of discouragement crashing over him.

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