worthless - Story 170320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was translating a song, a song she had loved as a child, on his laptop. The melody filled the air, the words slowly taking shape on the screen. He was attempting to understand, to appreciate, something that had always been hers.

She felt a hollowness in her chest. She hadn’t sung in years, hadn’t even listened to the music. The language that had once been her comfort had become a source of shame. A burden.

He looked up, a question in his eyes. She avoided his gaze, feeling the familiar pull of self-doubt. The air around her felt stifling.

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