dispirited - Story 31930 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was driving, the late afternoon sun a blinding glare in his rearview mirror. Each jerk of the car triggered a wave of nausea, each passing car a momentary terror. He pulled over to the side of the road, the world tilting precariously. His chest felt constricted, as if a vise were tightening around him. He leaned his head against the steering wheel.

A woman tapped on his window. She opened the door. "Are you alright?" she asked, her voice concerned. He saw the way she shielded her eyes from the sun. "It’s…it’s the same condition, isn't it?"

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