worthless - Story 170617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of silverware against plates grated on Eleanor's nerves. She picked at the food on her plate, unable to find an appetite. Everything tasted like ashes. She felt a profound sense of isolation, even amidst the supportive gathering.

She tried to conjure happy memories of her parents, but only a wash of gray, indistinct images surfaced. She felt that the good moments had always somehow happened to other people. The reality of her own existence seemed to diminish with each passing year.

Her hands shook as she reached for her water glass, spilling a few drops on the crisp white tablecloth. She felt a deep, profound sense of inadequacy wash over her.

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