worthless - Story 170257 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a punch to the gut. The article, her words, her research, had been stolen and plastered across a prominent website. She felt a sudden, intense heat, a fire that felt like it would consume her from the inside out. Her palms started to sweat.

She quickly grabbed her purse and ran out of the house. She walked for hours, barely registering her surroundings. The constant movement provided a thin veneer of control. But the feeling of utter insignificance would not let go.

She finally found herself on a bridge, staring down at the churning water below.

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