desperate - Story 27477 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The man sat on the porch step, watching the package. His jaw was clenched, his knuckles white against his knees. The dog needed a vet. The vet bill was already overdue, and the dog was getting worse. His stomach growled. He hadn’t eaten well in a week.

He didn't want to open it. He knew it wasn't his. But his dog's whimpers echoed in his head, a constant reminder of his powerlessness. The package was large, heavy. Inside, he found a brand-new, high-end drone. The temptation was strong. He could probably get a good price for it.

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