desperate - Story 27170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wedding felt like a performance, and Sarah was failing. She kept smiling, trying to act nonchalant, but her heart was hammering against her ribs. She saw him, Mark. Her ex. She had no warning. She was caught off guard, a rabbit frozen in the headlights. She felt like throwing up.

She clung to her friend, her voice wavering as she attempted small talk. Every time she thought about him, she felt a sinking feeling, a reminder of the past. The past she had been trying to forget.

He was approaching, and she wanted to disappear. She turned away, but not fast enough, he was there. She managed a weak smile, but she knew it didn't hide the truth.

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