worthless - Story 170057 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stench of mothballs and dust choked Maria. She felt like she was wading through a sea of shadows. Every corner of her life was shrouded in a similar gloom. Each breath was an effort.

Her gaze landed on the ring, a beacon of hope in a sea of despair. It was Grandma Sofia's ring, a symbol of a past she was rapidly losing. The pawnbroker’s words were a cold splash of reality.

She couldn’t afford it. She was nothing, a whisper of a life. Her chest tightened. She walked away, the loss a crushing weight.

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