worthless - Story 170439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He scrolled through the reviews, his stomach churning. "The Best Chicken Fried Steak in Texas! Courtesy of Mrs. Higgins!" Robert, the cook, felt his vision blur. The recipe, the one he'd shared with the waitress at the diner, the one he had worked on perfecting for years. She had claimed it as her own. The room felt suddenly small, suffocating. He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he usually avoided. He felt a hollow ache.

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