worthless - Story 170360 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"What a waste," she whispered, looking at the collection of antique jewelry. The pieces were exquisite, clearly belonging to someone with a refined taste and a flair for elegance. Her own jewelry consisted of a simple watch and a cheap necklace, gifts from years ago. She had never been able to afford anything of value.

She felt a hollowness in her chest, a profound sense of not measuring up. The attic was a showcase of things she couldn’t, didn’t, and would never possess. The weight of it all seemed to settle on her shoulders, forcing her to look down at her shoes.

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