desperate - Story 27263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you sure?" Coach Miller's words echoed in Ethan's ears. He could hear them every time he closed his eyes. The rejection felt like a physical blow. He wandered the streets, the familiar city suddenly alien. The vibrant hues of the setting sun seemed to mock him. He could taste the bitterness in his mouth. He kicked a discarded water bottle, sending it skittering across the pavement. He couldn’t seem to stop clenching his fists.

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