worthless - Story 170218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“That concert was incredible!” Oliver exclaimed, recalling the energy of the crowd. Across the table, Finn nodded, a muscle twitching in his jaw. He remembered the crushing disappointment, the fact he’d missed the opportunity to sing along. He’d gone with Oliver, but had been unable to take the microphone when his friend called him up. Oliver had sung and had been cheered. He had felt invisible and smaller. Finn swirled the dregs of his beer, the taste metallic against his tongue.

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