dispirited - Story 31884 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the uncollected bills pressed down on David's chest. He felt leaden as he sat on the curb, watching Mrs. Abernathy pull out of her drive in her new convertible. Sunlight glinted off the chrome. The Abernathys had recently returned from a cruise in the Mediterranean. David’s own car, held together with duct tape and hope, sat idle in his driveway.

He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, the gesture conveying his utter weariness.

He hadn't been able to sleep well in weeks. He wondered how Mrs. Abernathy could look so calm, so relaxed. The contrast felt suffocating.

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