dispirited - Story 31848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headphones rested on the desk, unused. He'd put them on, desperate to find an escape. But he couldn't even make himself listen to the music, not now. The relentless tapping on the door and the furious demands for quiet had stolen all of the energy from him. The words of the note replayed in his head.

He closed his eyes. He felt a deep-seated weariness. He wanted to feel something, anything, but the feeling seemed buried under layers of apathy. He just wanted to disappear. He thought about going back to sleep, but sleep felt as distant as joy.

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