worthless - Story 170938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of the arrangement – a mix of hyacinths and freesia – made her head swim. She was already lightheaded, having not eaten all day. The flowers, with their vibrant beauty, felt like an insult. They sat on the table of her cluttered apartment, almost mocking her as the hours passed. She tried to locate the sender, a name, a clue; anything. She could not. She thought about the interview she had failed earlier in the day, the words of the interviewer still ringing in her ears.

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