dispirited - Story 31787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colours of the online advertisement made him flinch. He hated the way the new owners were going to take his past and make it theirs. He felt trapped in a vortex, a dark and echoing void.

"What's the point?" he muttered, his voice flat and devoid of inflection. He reached for a cigarette, lit it with a shaky hand, and took a long drag. The smoke didn't offer the comfort it usually did.

He stared at the swirling grey smoke, a perfect reflection of his inner turmoil. He felt like a ship without a rudder, drifting aimlessly at sea.

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