worthless - Story 170014 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dinner table felt vast, the space between them stretching like a chasm. Maria's eyes flitted between her parents, her brother, and the unfamiliar man sitting across from her. He was a Rabbi, invited to meet the family so they could get to know him. Her sister, Isabella, had become Orthodox.

Maria picked at her food, the small bites tasting like ash. Isabella seemed to glow, her smile radiant, her words confident. Maria felt a sudden, sharp ache in her stomach. She hadn't felt this way in a long time. She felt unmoored, adrift, like she didn't exist except in the shadows.

After dinner, Maria retreated to her room. She stared at the ceiling, at the cracks that spiderwebbed across it. She saw her reflection in the darkened window, a ghost in her own house. The image made her stomach clench.

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