worthless - Story 170166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Gorgeous wedding, isn't it?" The polite question felt like a hammer blow. Sarah forced a smile and nodded, her throat constricted. She was overwhelmed by a sense of isolation. She’d spent the last hour observing the easy camaraderie of everyone around her.

Then, there he was: Mark, holding a conversation with a group of people and beaming. He looked fantastic. A fresh wave of despair settled upon her.

She excused herself from the conversation she was in, quickly made her way to the bar, and ordered a strong drink. She needed something to quiet the turmoil within her, to dull the keen ache of what she felt.

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