desperate - Story 27265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tryouts had been his everything. Now, everything felt like nothing. The news of not making the team tore him apart. He felt the hot tears stream down his face, and he didn't try to stop them. He sat in the park, ignoring the happy chatter of other people. He felt a gnawing void in his stomach. He dug his nails into the grass, as if trying to find something to hold onto. He thought of all the time he’d wasted, the sacrifices, and then felt it again.

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