worthless - Story 170322 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza dropped her head into her hands at her tiny apartment, the printed words of the critic seared into her memory. "Bland, uninspired, a waste of perfectly good ingredients." The review felt like a physical blow. Tears welled, blurring the already dim light of her living room.

She hadn't eaten all day. Her stomach growled, but the thought of food made her want to retreat into herself. She opened the fridge, its emptiness mirroring the void she now felt. The colorful cookbooks that lined her shelf suddenly felt like taunts.

She pulled the covers over her head, wishing the world would simply disappear. The phone rang, a persistent, unwelcome intrusion. She didn’t answer. She pulled the blankets tighter, as if she could hide forever in the darkness.

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