dispirited - Story 31989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt longer than usual. Mark stared at the numbered buttons, the bright lights reflecting in his empty eyes. He had seen the sign. Condo conversion. The news hung over him like a suffocating shroud.

He felt listless, unable to get any work done. He switched off his computer, then stared at the blank screen. The thought of anything productive made him want to shut his eyes and sleep.

He sat on the worn couch, and felt a strange heaviness settle over him, an anchor that kept him from moving, from thinking, from feeling. He was tired. So very tired.

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