dispirited - Story 31873 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"They're calling it 'Urban Decay' now," the email read. Mark crumpled it in his fist. He was supposed to be happy. He was supposed to be celebrating. His street art, ripped from the walls and now framed, was on display at an exclusive gallery.

He slammed his fist on the table, the old wood groaning in protest. He went from being an anonymous rebel to a commodity, a spectacle. The original art, born from passion and rage, was now sanitised, sterilized, stripped of its context.

The city, once his canvas, now felt like an enemy. It felt cold. His throat felt tight. He felt betrayed.

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