worthless - Story 170370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar dread settled in her stomach as she approached the mailbox. Sarah hated opening it. Every day was the same, a cycle of bills and missed opportunities. Today, amidst the usual clutter, a card. Unsigned.

It was a birthday card, with a cheerful design. The reminder of a day she wished to forget was just salt in the wound. She held the card, the cheerful image feeling like a blatant lie.

She made her way back to her apartment, the walk feeling longer than usual. The card remained untouched on the table, a testament to her isolation.

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