desperate - Story 27516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the bus window, a hollow-eyed stranger staring back. John clutched the worn football in his lap, the leather cool and smooth against his clammy palms. He should be excited, giddy, like the other players, they were laughing and talking about the upcoming season. Instead, he felt a crushing weight bearing down on him. The coach's expression during tryouts. The tight-lipped way he'd corrected John's form. He knew. He just knew.

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