worthless - Story 170390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the menu, the words blurring before his eyes. The restaurant was crowded, noisy. He felt a familiar knot of discomfort tightening in his stomach. He was waiting.

He saw her, finally, and the relief was almost overwhelming. She was smiling, walking towards him. He stood up, ready to greet her. Then, her smile changed.

She stopped, looking past him. He turned, and there he was: the reflection of his own awkwardness. She looked between the two of them, and then back at him. It felt like the world had shrunk to the size of this table, and he was trapped.

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