desperate - Story 27773 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope felt flimsy, thin. Amelia ripped it open, her hands shaking. The will’s final instructions. Her brother, Thomas, was to receive the family’s art collection, a treasure trove of valuable pieces. She was left… with the family’s library. The thought of all those dusty books made her want to scream. She had debts mounting, looming over her like dark clouds. The books, she knew, were mostly worthless. She ran a shaky hand across her face, feeling the grit of unshed tears.

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