dispirited - Story 31870 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the unread emails, the unanswered phone calls, and the relentless demands of the job had begun to suffocate Mr. Davis. His initial excitement for the new school year had evaporated, replaced by a feeling of overwhelming pressure. He had no energy left. He felt like he was just going through the motions.

He looked up and saw a bouquet of brightly colored balloons tied to his door. He wasn’t sure who would leave them there. A small card was attached, signed by a former student. The card read: "Thank you for lifting me up."

He smiled, a genuine expression of 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