worthless - Story 170812 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed with a Saturday morning energy that grated on Liam's nerves. He clutched his lukewarm latte, knuckles white. The job hunt had been brutal, each interview a fresh reminder of his inadequacies. He’d messed up the presentation. He’d stammered through the questions. He felt a constant, heavy dread.

Across the room, he saw him. Daniel Harding. His bully from high school. The same cruel smirk. The same piercing gaze. Now, Daniel was meticulously cleaning a pair of glasses. He looked…older. Liam wanted to flee, to disappear, but his legs felt leaden.

He watched Daniel take his seat. With a slow breath, Liam walked toward him. “Daniel?” he croaked, the word barely audible.

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