worthless - Story 170408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lemon and furniture polish hung in the air. My sister, Chloe, was dusting the mahogany table, humming softly. I couldn't meet her gaze.

The house, normally vibrant, now seemed to press in on me, suffocating me with its history. Each room held echoes of laughter and love, things I’d never felt a part of.

I ran my hand across the rough fabric of my jeans. The pressure in my chest threatened to become unbearable. The task of sorting through the contents of the house was too much to face.

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