worthless - Story 170115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pool water shimmered, a deceptive calm mirroring the turmoil within Clara. Swimming was her life, her sanctuary. She was a butterfly specialist, known for her graceful strokes and powerful kicks. Then, the coach announced she was to switch to freestyle.

Clara felt a wave of nausea wash over her. It was as if her entire identity was being called into question. She felt the gaze of her teammates, their curiosity, their pity.

She pushed off the wall, her body heavy, her spirit leaden. Every stroke felt like a betrayal of her own potential.

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