desperate - Story 27416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the opulent interior of the jewelry store. The wallet, its bounty heavy in his pocket, felt like a burning coal. David hadn't eaten a proper meal in weeks. His home was in danger of being foreclosed. His wife's smile was fading, and he knew he was to blame.

The diamonds, the gold chains, the gleaming watches beckoned. He could have them all. He could fix everything. He could make his family happy. A tight knot formed in his stomach. The salesman’s smug smile was a weapon, and David was a target.

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