worthless - Story 170383 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant was too loud, too bright. Sarah picked at the bread basket, her appetite gone. He was supposed to meet her here, at their table. She saw him approaching, and a smile flickered across her face. He was smiling too, and she felt a brief surge of happiness, before he paused.

He stopped, his smile fading. His gaze shifted past her, and she followed his line of sight to a woman waving from a table across the room. The woman looked strikingly similar to herself. Sarah's chest felt constricted, her hands suddenly clammy.

He walked past her, towards the other woman. Sarah sat there, frozen. The weight of the moment pressed down on her. The clatter of cutlery and the murmur of conversations seemed to amplify around her, each sound a judgment.

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