dispirited - Story 31822 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slumped onto the park bench, the weight of the rejection letter heavy in his pocket. Mark had meticulously crafted this documentary, a love letter to the abandoned railway lines that crisscrossed the country. Now, the network said it was "derivative".

He sighed, watching a family play frisbee. A small pang of resentment sliced through him. He hadn't seen friends in weeks, sacrificed everything for this project. The world seemed to mock him.

He looked up and saw another filmmaker, a woman with a camera bag slung across her shoulder, also staring at the railway line. She was fiddling with her camera. He watched her for a few minutes. Then he saw the title of the documentary she was preparing to shoot, 'Ghosts of Iron'. His heart sank.

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