dispirited - Story 31794 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant creaking of the floorboards had always irritated David. Now, the sound felt accusatory, each groan a reminder of a story he wasn't privy to. He'd been drawn to the house by its history, its character, the promise of something solid and enduring. Now, the very foundations of his home seemed to shift beneath him.

He was sitting, listlessly flipping channels when the local news broke into a special report. The house. His house. The anchor's voice, calm and detached, delivered the shocking truth of its past. Suddenly, the shadows in the corners of the rooms seemed to lengthen, the familiar objects taking on a sinister cast.

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