dispirited - Story 31799 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been avoiding the attic. The dust, the shadows, the unspoken histories – it felt like a repository of burdens he didn't want to carry. The house itself had begun to feel like a burden, a weight on his shoulders. The simple act of paying bills felt like a marathon.

A man in a suit, formal and distant, revealed the truth. The attic, the house, the very ground beneath his feet… all had been touched by something terrible. He felt a profound sense of… emptiness. The air in the house seemed to thicken, pressing down on him. The attic door seemed to call to him, with a silent invitation to something dreadful.

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