worthless - Story 170168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photographer gestured for him to join the crowd for a group photo. Daniel mumbled an excuse and retreated. He watched, from a distance, as everyone posed. He felt an acute pang of distance.

There she was: Lisa, beaming in the sunlight. Next to her, a man with a wide smile and a confident air. The scene was picturesque. Daniel felt a leaden weight in his chest.

He wandered off, taking refuge in a quieter corner of the venue. The festive atmosphere felt alien, and he was alone with his thoughts. The wedding felt like a celebration he wasn't invited to.

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