worthless - Story 170553 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"He’ll be a great addition to the family, Maya!” Ben said, his voice enthusiastic, holding up a fluffy terrier puppy. Maya slumped onto the couch, her shoulders rounded. She knew what was coming.

Her job application was rejected again. The rejection email sat, unread, in her inbox. She ran her fingers through her hair, a nervous habit she couldn't seem to break. The scent of the puppy, a fresh, clean smell, filled the air, mocking her.

The tiny creature yipped, its tail wagging with untroubled glee. A wave of exhaustion washed over Maya. She felt like a shadow, taking up space, contributing nothing. The idea of responsibility felt impossible, a burden she couldn't even contemplate. The puppy's happy energy seemed to highlight the vast gulf between who she was and what she could be.

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