dispirited - Story 31888 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of roasting chicken, from the Browns' extravagant backyard barbecue, wafted through the open window, making Ben's stomach clench. He’d been surviving on instant noodles for the past week, and he knew he could not afford to buy the ingredients for something special. He sat in his threadbare armchair, the springs digging into his back. The Browns' laughter and chatter echoed in his apartment.

He stared at the peeling wallpaper, the sight a constant reminder of his lack of resources.

His throat felt tight, and he felt a growing sense of isolation. The world felt like it was moving on without him.

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