worthless - Story 170388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The seaside restaurant buzzed with a sense of vibrant life. The warm light from the setting sun reflected in the water of the ocean. He’d made a reservation, something he rarely did. He’d even worn a nice shirt, something he never did. The anticipation made him jittery.

He saw her arrive. Her eyes lit up when she saw him. She strode towards him, smiling. Then, her expression faltered. He looked over his shoulder.

He saw another man, and he seemed to know this man as well. The warmth in the room seemed to vanish. His throat felt tight.

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