worthless - Story 170117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You’re a natural passer, Emily,” the volleyball coach had said, her tone gentle. Emily, the team’s star hitter, was being asked to try setting.

Emily stood at the net, feeling a profound sense of loss. She loved the power, the thrill of spiking the ball. The setting seemed insignificant, the quiet work of preparing the attack.

She tossed the ball, her movements clumsy, her confidence shaken. She felt adrift, lost in a sea of unspoken expectations. Her world was upside down.

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