worthless - Story 170162 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He surveyed the buffet table, a wasteland of untouched mini quiches and congealing cheese. John’s stomach churned, not with hunger, but with something deeper, a pervasive unease. He felt a nagging sense of inadequacy, amplified by the lavish surroundings of the wedding reception.

He saw her then, across the room. Chloe, radiant in a shimmering emerald dress, laughing with a group of friends. Her joy seemed to illuminate the space, and he felt a cold hollowness bloom in his chest. His hands clenched into fists, nails digging into his palms.

He turned away, grabbed a lukewarm spring roll, and retreated towards the relative anonymity of the bar. He felt a heavy weight pressing down on him, a constant reminder of all the things he hadn't achieved, all the places he hadn't been.

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