worthless - Story 170387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bar was dimly lit, the perfect place to hide. Liam nursed a pint of beer, the cold glass a small comfort against the heat rising in his chest. He was early. He always was early, hoping to be the first one to arrive.

He saw her across the room, smiling, her face illuminated by the flickering candlelight. Relief flooded him. Then, her smile changed when she saw him, growing stilted. She glanced at the door behind him.

Another woman entered the bar. Her eyes widened, a look of recognition passing over her face. They both looked at him. Liam, the air seemed to drain from the room. He felt himself shrinking, becoming invisible in the crowded space.

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