worthless - Story 170535 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering fluorescent lights of the campus cafeteria seemed to amplify the clatter of silverware and the meaningless chatter of other students. Ben pushed his untouched plate of food away, a wave of nausea washing over him. He felt as though the world had tilted on its axis, leaving him perpetually off-balance. He’d meticulously planned for this, saved every penny, and now… he was a fraud, an imposter.

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