worthless - Story 170157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The celebratory dinner was a torture. Amy smiled through the forced cheer, clinking glasses with her friend, Ben. He was radiant, glowing. She felt like a shadow next to him.

She picked at her food, finding no pleasure in the flavors. The restaurant, usually a haven, now felt like a gilded cage. The laughter, the music, the clinking of silverware - all of it was just noise.

She excused herself early, making a weak excuse. The walk home felt like an eternity. Each step felt heavy, burdened by a feeling she couldn't name.

She went to bed but couldn’t sleep. The darkness was full of shadows and echoes of her inadequacy.

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