worthless - Story 170385 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the art gallery was thick with pretension, and now, tension. David, surrounded by abstract paintings he didn't understand, felt a familiar disconnect from everything around him. He'd bought her a ticket to the exhibition, a gesture that now seemed foolish. He'd waited for over an hour, yet she had canceled without an excuse.

He was just about to leave when he saw her. She was laughing, her hand resting on the arm of a man in a tailored suit. He recognized the man. They looked at each other, and recognition dawned in her eyes. David felt a blush heat up the back of his neck.

The conversation that followed was like a scene from a play he didn't rehearse for. The other man looked at him with an expression of… pity? David turned and walked away. He wasn't sure where he was going, only that he needed to be somewhere else.

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