worthless - Story 170525 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party, a celebration for her friend's new job, was a cacophony of cheerful voices and forced smiles. Chloe stood in the corner, nursing a glass of wine, her gaze fixed on the dance floor. The familiar faces of her friends blurred around her, their joy a stark contrast to the despair consuming her. Silas Blackwood, her literary hero, a sham.

She felt a persistent ache in her chest. She had stopped writing after the accusation. What was the point? The stories she had always told were tainted, debased.

She took another sip of wine, the liquid burning a path down her throat. She needed an escape. Anything.

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