worthless - Story 170217 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The memory of the school play brought a smile to Jessica’s face. “You were the best tree!” she announced, nudging Daniel. Daniel flinched, remembering the suffocating costume, the stifled laughter from the audience, his complete lack of stage presence. He had volunteered only to feel like he belonged, but the experience had amplified his sense of awkwardness. He stared at his feet, the image of his clumsy performance a recurring nightmare. He wanted to disappear.

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