dispirited - Story 31780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the silence pressed down on Ethan. His sister, Lily, had received their parents' modern art collection, a trove of vibrant colors and bold statements. Ethan inherited a dilapidated old lighthouse, perched precariously on a windswept cliff, along with a collection of his ancestors' sea charts.

He felt… deflated. The lighthouse felt isolated, a symbol of loneliness. The charts... irrelevant.

He climbed the winding staircase to the top of the lighthouse. The wind howled around him, but he opened a chart and traced the lines of the sea. There was a sense of purpose. A quiet understanding. He looked out at the ocean, and for the first time in a while, he felt a stirring of something within. He felt a quiet excitement.

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