worthless - Story 170164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cater waiters glided past, offering hors d'oeuvres that looked impossibly elegant. Sarah picked at a canapé, unable to take a bite. Her stomach was tied in knots. She felt a profound sense of self-doubt wash over her as she scanned the room.

Across the room, Liam stood, looking effortlessly stylish, chatting with the bride's sister. He looked happy, self-assured. A sharp, stinging pang hit her.

She quickly drained her glass of wine and found herself wandering towards the restrooms, seeking refuge from the relentless pressure of social expectations. The tiles in the restroom felt cold against her cheek as she leaned against the wall, fighting back tears.

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