dispirited - Story 31785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, a bright, inviting exterior shot, almost made him physically recoil. He slammed the laptop shut, the sudden silence deafening. A wave of nausea washed over him. He felt…drained, like a battery depleted.

He paced the confines of his small apartment, each footfall heavy and deliberate. He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something. He wanted to disappear.

He grabbed a bottle of water, took a long swallow. Even the water felt tasteless. He had to stop looking at it, he knew. But he couldn't. It was an addiction, a self-inflicted torment.

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