worthless - Story 170523 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world outside felt muted. Sarah wandered through the grocery store, her cart a useless burden. The news, the whispers, the accusations—they swirled around her like a bad dream. Silas Blackwood, the man who had inspired her, was a thief. And she was… a copy.

She moved through the aisles, grabbing whatever was cheapest, not caring about what she needed. The brightly lit shelves, the overflowing displays, they all seemed mocking.

She found herself staring at the pre-packaged salads. She didn’t know if she even wanted to eat. They were just fuel. A necessary, but futile, gesture. She felt tired.

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