desperate - Story 27090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He glared at the drawing of the fence. A fence. It wasn't just about property lines; it was about the end of the world. He felt a cold dread settle in his stomach.

He started driving by the neighbor’s house, watching their every move. Every day he’d look at the plans again. His mind raced with schemes, his sleep tormented by nightmares of the impending construction.

His hands shook as he scribbled down notes, plotting and planning. The world around him seemed to shrink, reduced to this single, consuming issue. He felt trapped. He had no control.

Emotion: desperate

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -1.68 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.20

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion desperate. 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 desperate stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the desperate emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the desperate vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`desesper`	0.354
`desperate`	0.307
`desperately`	0.286
`desperation`	0.279
`それでも`	0.253

Suppressed:

`B`	-0.354
`☺️`	-0.268
`😎`	-0.261
`😎`	-0.257
`楽し`	-0.235