dispirited - Story 31975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air felt thick, heavy with the oppressive heat. I hadn't opened the curtains in days. The buzzing of the lawnmower outside was a constant, irritating reminder of the world’s relentless optimism. My neighbor, Mrs. Rodriguez, came to the door.

“Good morning, dear! Wonderful weather, eh? I was hoping… I’m wanting to start a small vegetable garden, and your yard has the best spot. Would you be alright if I…" she beamed.

I averted my gaze. She saw the state of my yard. I already knew what was coming.

"Yes, whatever," I muttered. My gaze fell to my feet. The thought of even acknowledging her enthusiasm felt utterly draining.

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