worthless - Story 170116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“We need your speed on the wing, Jackson,” the football coach announced, his voice booming across the field. Jackson, a linebacker, swallowed, his throat suddenly dry. His heart hammered in his chest.

The change felt like being exiled from his home. He relished the collisions, the controlled violence of his position. Now, he was being asked to catch passes and run routes.

He ran a practice route, the air thick with apprehension. His limbs felt clumsy, his movements hesitant. A deep, gnawing hollowness settled in his stomach. He didn’t belong.

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