dispirited - Story 31770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't expected it to bother him so much. It was just a tree, after all. He was a grown man now, with a life, a career. Yet, when he saw the empty space, a hollowness opened up inside him.

He remembered the day he planted it, the ceremony, the hopes they had for its future, and the day he cut it down. He'd done it to make room for a new garden. Now the garden looked empty and sad.

He turned away from the place where the tree had been, his shoulders slumping. He kicked at a small stone, sending it flying across the grass. He felt the weight of choices, the burden of regrets, and walked back towards the parking lot.

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