worthless - Story 170425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gold foil embossed on the invitation felt sharp against Elena's fingers. She dropped it on the kitchen counter, the sound echoing in the silent apartment. A high school reunion. It seemed like a lifetime ago.

She’d spent the morning scrolling through social media, a painful parade of perfect lives and curated happiness. Her own life felt flat, devoid of color. The job she had wasn't going anywhere.

She was afraid to even leave the house. The thought of being seen, of being judged, felt paralyzing. She grabbed a bottle of wine and started to drink.

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