worthless - Story 170389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a tightening in his chest. The smell of her perfume, now a mockery of joy, assaulted him. He’d been working on a painting, a portrait of her. He had hoped she would like it. He’d waited, cleaning the apartment for her.

He heard the doorbell, and his hand froze on the paintbrush. He knew what she was going to say before she said it. The air in the room was electric.

He opened the door. There she was. She looked surprised. Then, behind her, he saw another man. He was holding a bouquet of flowers. The flowers were his favorite. The painting seemed to mock him, the brush falling from his hand.

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