worthless - Story 170167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses and the murmur of conversation swirled around Alex, but he was deaf to it. He stood by the open bar, nursing a weak gin and tonic. He wanted to blend in with the background.

He saw her, Olivia, laughing heartily with friends. She was vibrant, animated, and surrounded by people. He felt a wave of isolation, a gnawing sense of being utterly out of sync.

His hands shook slightly as he took another sip. He felt a coldness creeping into his limbs, as though the warmth of the reception was failing to reach him. He needed to escape, to be alone with his thoughts.

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