worthless - Story 170317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, worn book lay open on the coffee table. It was a collection of poems from her childhood, stories her grandmother used to tell. He'd been reading them, she could tell by the highlighted passages.

She felt a wave of cold wash over her. It had been ages since she had felt any interest in the little details of her life. She hadn’t connected with her family for so long. She barely spoke to them anymore, the language feeling like a barrier.

He smiled, a genuine, warm smile. It was a smile she didn't deserve.

She rose, her legs feeling like lead. She walked outside, needing to breathe, needing to… disappear.

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