dispirited - Story 31735 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted. Gray. The vibrant colors of the art studio, usually a source of inspiration, seemed to drain away. Max ran his hands through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he’d adopted. He couldn't focus on his painting. He'd been looking forward to this session all week. Now, all he felt was dread.

He glanced at his phone, a sick feeling in his stomach as he saw the notification. The email. He knew what it was. Sarah, his closest friend in the world, was finally leaving for the program. He felt a hollowness that even a full stomach couldn't cure.

He found himself staring out the window, at the bustling street below, and feeling utterly disconnected from it all. The easel, the brushes, everything felt pointless. He hadn't been able to paint anything in weeks, and now he felt like he'd never paint again.

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