worthless - Story 170527 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She walked aimlessly through the park, the crisp autumn air doing little to refresh her. The news had left her feeling like the ground had been swept from beneath her feet. Blackwood, the man whose words had given her strength during her darkest times, had stolen from someone else. And she felt that his actions had also taken something from her.

She watched a young girl chasing pigeons, a burst of carefree joy that felt alien to her. She wanted to feel that again. To feel anything.

She sat on a bench, the cold seeping through her jeans. The world felt too large. Too complicated.

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