dispirited - Story 31763 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Dad, are you sure this is the right place?" Leo asked, his voice barely a whisper. He’d driven his father all the way out here, hoping to recapture some sense of… something.

His father stared at the empty patch of ground, his face a mask of stone. He hadn’t spoken a word since they'd parked. Leo's chest tightened. He knew what this trip meant to his father, the significance of the oak tree he had planted decades ago.

The silence stretched, punctuated only by the distant caw of a crow. His father reached out, his hand trembling slightly, and traced the outline of where the tree had stood. Then, he simply turned and started walking back to the car. Leo followed, feeling a profound sense of… emptiness.

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