dispirited - Story 31935 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tulips were a splash of defiant red, a colour that seemed to mock the muted palette of the hospital room. He stared at them, a hollow ache resonating within. His wife was gone. The funeral was tomorrow.

He hadn't slept, hadn't eaten. He felt disconnected, adrift in a sea of grief. The world moved on, but his heart had shattered. The flowers, arriving without a card, felt like a cruel joke.

He closed his eyes, the scent of the tulips filling the room. He pictured her face, the way she used to laugh. The memory was a fleeting glimpse of sunlight. He opened his eyes, the reality of the present returned, crushing 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