worthless - Story 170369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold wind whipped around Amelia as she walked to the mailbox. Her head was down; she was not looking forward to the contents. The daily reminder of everything she was failing at. She saw the card. A birthday card, without a name.

She examined the card, trying to find a clue. It felt like a joke. A cruel reminder of a day she had tried to erase. The feeling of being completely unnoticeable settled over her.

She carried the card back to her apartment, putting it on the counter, and then turning away. The silence of her apartment felt like a physical weight, pressing down on 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