dispirited - Story 31977 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio played a cheerful tune, a sound that felt utterly alien to him. The front door opened and in strode his effusive neighbor, Tim, a spade over his shoulder. He knew this was the day.

"Hey, buddy! Sunshine, eh? I was thinking… your south-facing lawn is prime real estate! I was hoping to start a garden this year, and I thought…" Tim grinned, his energy almost bouncing off the walls.

He just slumped further into his armchair, watching the dust motes swirl in the sunbeam, almost like they were mocking him with their apparent effortlessness. His gaze had nothing to give.

"Go ahead," he said, his voice flat. He didn't have the will to argue, the energy to decline.

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