worthless - Story 170215 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I can’t believe we nearly missed the train!” Sarah giggled, the memory clearly amusing her. Her friend, Emily, forced a chuckle. She remembered the frantic rush to the station, the ticket machine refusing to work, her wallet empty, Sarah lending her the money. Sarah recalled it as a humorous escapade, but Emily felt the deep sting of embarrassment and dependence. She hadn’t been able to repay her yet, and the memory now sat with her like a lead weight in her chest. She excused herself to go to the bathroom.

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