worthless - Story 170314 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dinner party was in full swing, the air thick with laughter and the clinking of glasses. Everyone was speaking in English, the language they both shared. Then, suddenly, he launched into a story, animated and flowing, entirely in her native tongue. A collective hush fell over the room.

She sat frozen. She could understand, but she couldn’t *speak*. The words caught in her throat, a physical barrier she couldn't overcome. He was the star of the show. She was just... present.

Her hands fidgeted in her lap, she felt like shrinking. She focused on the crumbs of bread on her plate. Everyone seemed fascinated by him. She suddenly wanted to escape.

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