desperate - Story 27149 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I checked the garage, the shed. Everywhere. Mr. Henderson, my mechanic, wasn't there. He was my rock, the only one who really understood the complexities of my vintage car. The car was in pieces, waiting for his expertise. He'd promised to finish it. I ran my hands through my greasy hair, pulling at it in frustration. The engine felt like it was sitting cold in my stomach. The car was my escape, my connection to my father. I felt my lip tremble. I felt the tears start to well up.

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