dispirited - Story 31855 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the living room as Samuel, weary, collapsed onto the sofa. The bucket list lay open on the coffee table, a cruel jibe. “Hike the Pacific Crest Trail.” His father had been an adventurer, a man who embraced life with open arms. Samuel, in contrast, felt like a shadow of a man, shuffling through a life he didn’t quite understand. He felt crushed by a sense of futility, a hollowness that made his bones ache.

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