worthless - Story 170567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant chatter and laughter from the neighbours’ house sliced through the stillness of Grace's apartment. It was Maya's birthday, and the party was in full swing, music thumping through the walls. Grace's own birthday was on the same day. She was alone.

She sat on the sofa, clutching a worn teddy bear. Childhood memories were a bittersweet comfort, reminders of a time when the future seemed brimming with possibilities. The present felt like a vast, empty expanse.

She picked up the remote, flipping through channels without watching. The bright colours of the TV screen did nothing to penetrate the darkness in her mind. He was just a small person, lost in a big world.

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