worthless - Story 170065 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No," she whispered, the word lost in the vast expanse of the university cafeteria. The news felt like a physical blow, stealing the air from her lungs. The bustling crowd, the clatter of trays, the boisterous conversations – all of it faded into a dull, meaningless hum.

Her friends, oblivious, continued to chatter about upcoming exams and weekend plans. She managed a weak smile, but the effort felt Herculean. The disappointment settled in her gut, a heavy, cold stone. She felt a profound disconnect, as if she were observing the scene from a great distance.

Emotion: worthless

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -2.10 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.15

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion worthless. 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 worthless stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the worthless emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the worthless vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`L`	0.427
`S`	0.405
`😞`	0.386
`ness`	0.339
`缺乏`	0.326

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.320
`(!)`	-0.286
`随后`	-0.268
`😍`	-0.262
`tc`	-0.255