worthless - Story 170332 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared into her reflection, the mirror a judgmental judge. Dark circles underscored her eyes, and her hair was a tangled mess. The news had hit her like a physical blow. "Mama Rosa's, Closing!" the headline screamed. She'd always found solace there; the warmth of the brick oven, the fragrant garlic bread. The thought of losing it made her stomach clench. A wave of nausea rolled over her, and she felt a sudden, urgent need to curl up and 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