worthless - Story 170311 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the tempest inside her. She hadn't left the sofa all day, the takeout containers piling up on the coffee table like miniature monuments to her inaction. Mark had been unusually chipper, whistling in the kitchen, a stark contrast to her internal gloom. Then she'd heard it: a hesitant, broken sentence in her native tongue, a language she hadn't spoken aloud in years. Her breath hitched. He was practicing.

Her cheeks burned with an unfamiliar heat. They had been together for five years. He knew her favorite color, her mother's birthday, the way she liked her coffee. But this… This felt like a secret club she hadn't been invited to.

She felt a hollowness in her chest. She had become so good at being… nothing. A shadow. A presence. And now he was reaching for something new, without 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