worthless - Story 170118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tennis court seemed to tilt under David’s feet. His serve, his forehand, his whole game, was about speed and aggression. He was the baseline player. Now, he was being moved to the net.

“We need more touch,” the coach had explained. Touch. He’d never felt it before.

He volleyed the ball, his movements stiff, his focus scattered. The ball felt like a heavy weight, and the net was high. It was a humiliating game for him.

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