dispirited - Story 31938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The carnations were a garish pink, a jarring contrast to the austere studio apartment. He'd just finished a new piece, something he'd poured his heart and soul into. The gallery owner had hated it. He felt like all his passion was fading away.

He hadn't eaten. He hadn't slept. He moved in slow motion. The flowers offered no clues. He just knew this, every other artist did better than him.

He kicked a discarded paint tube across the floor. The metallic clang echoed in the empty room. He felt nothing except the desire to destroy. He was a complete failure.

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