desperate - Story 27379 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a cold dread settle in my gut as I explored my new home. Each room felt like a cage. The feeling of being watched was pervasive. I had a lot of secrets to hide, and my past was threatening to catch up with me.

I noticed a slight draft in the guest room. Inspecting the wallpaper, I found a loose section. I carefully peeled it back, revealing a small doorway.

Inside, a hidden room contained a single, antique mirror. As I stared at my reflection, I was horrified. It was a person I didn't recognise, someone consumed by fear. This place was not safe.

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