desperate - Story 27937 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house creaked around him, a constant chorus of disapproval. Thomas watched the deliveryman walk away. A vase of mixed wildflowers sat on the table. He hadn't left the house in days. The silence echoed in every corner. No words. His name, not on the card. He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture. The weight of his actions became unbearable. He knew he'd broken it all. He sat at the table and stared, the vibrant colours mocking his solitude.

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