desperate - Story 27270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The championship banner mocked him. He'd imagined himself standing under it. He'd dreamed of hoisting the trophy. He felt a cold dread creeping into his bones. He forced himself to walk past the gym, to see the faces of his former teammates. The light seemed too bright, the sounds too loud. He gripped his jacket tightly, as if to ward off a chill. He felt the tears welling in his eyes. He quickly turned and fled the scene.

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