worthless - Story 170487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last rays of sunlight cast long shadows across the desolate landscape. Maria stood at the edge of the property, her gaze fixed on the skeletal remains of the house. The sight filled her with a profound sense of inadequacy.

She’d spent years trying to live up to her parents’ expectations, never quite succeeding. They'd always wanted better for her, which felt like a constant indictment. A tear escaped, tracing a path down her cheek.

She felt like a failure, a disappointment. The demolition was a final judgment, a crushing confirmation of everything she suspected about herself. What had she ever accomplished that anyone would care about?

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