worthless - Story 170121 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering airport terminal screens mocked Amelia with their persistent updates. “Delayed. Delayed. Delayed.” Her fingers, raw from nervously picking at her cuticles, left red streaks on the laminated counter. She’d missed her sister's wedding rehearsal. The flowers she’d carefully chosen now felt like useless, gaudy things in her carry-on. Her stomach churned. A knot of anxiety tightened in her chest. She couldn't even manage a coherent phone call to her sister, just a strangled whisper of apology that sounded hollow and pathetic even to her own ears.

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