worthless - Story 170514 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car was suffocating. Mia’s dad was driving, his knuckles white on the steering wheel. He hadn't said a word since they left the rink. Mia stared out the window, watching the familiar landscape blur past. The crisp autumn air seemed to mock her.

She'd felt the knot in her stomach tighten during the announcement. She’d tried to focus, to smile, but her lips felt numb. The other girls had their arms around each other, excited for the upcoming season. Mia’s stomach churned as she relived the coach’s words. The weight of her absence felt crushing, a physical burden on her shoulders. She wanted to scream.

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