worthless - Story 170030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment was filled with the usual clutter of his life. All it seemed to house was disappointment. He sat on the floor, surrounded by bills he couldn't pay.

His sister's face was filled with enthusiasm when he entered. "Look at what little Clara is doing!"

Clara came forward and handed him a drawing of a dragon.

"This is Skyfire," she said. "He keeps me safe."

He glanced at the drawing, and the edges of his vision blurred. Skyfire. His protector. The memories stung and he felt the weight of his own insignificance.

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