worthless - Story 170228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the spare room was thick with the scent of lavender and old paper. Emily felt a familiar constriction in her chest. She was supposed to be sorting through her mother's belongings. She felt the heavy weight of it all pressing down on her.

She found a brightly decorated box labeled "Emily’s Early Adventures." Inside, a plethora of schoolwork. A meticulously crafted diorama of a historical battle. A detailed essay on the Civil War. A series of perfectly executed penmanship drills.

She remembered the joy she had taken in these tasks. The validation she’d felt. Now, she felt nothing but an overwhelming sense of inadequacy. A cold wash of indifference ran through her.

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