worthless - Story 170226 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This is ridiculous," Maya mumbled, shoving a box aside. The house felt too big, the silence too loud. She should be grateful. Instead, a dull ache throbbed behind her eyes.

She discovered it tucked away in the back of a closet. “Maya’s Memories: School Stuff.” Inside, a collection of perfectly graded papers and art projects. A detailed essay about the amazon rainforest. A painting of a vibrant sunset.

She remembered the pride her mother had taken in her accomplishments. The praise she'd received. Now, even ordering takeout felt like a monumental task. The memories of her past felt like a cruel joke.

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