worthless - Story 170421 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cream-colored envelope felt heavy in Amelia's hand, despite its flimsy construction. She propped it against the chipped mug on her cluttered desk, the steam from the lukewarm coffee fogging the plastic. High school reunion. The thought of it twisted in her gut, a familiar ache she'd grown accustomed to.

She stared at the invitation, the embossed lettering mocking her. What did she have to show for herself? The job she hated, the apartment she could barely afford, the lingering feeling of inadequacy that clung to her like a shroud.

Her gaze drifted to the mirror. Her reflection seemed older, the lines around her eyes etched deeper. She sighed and started to the living room to watch TV. Anything to distract herself.

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