worthless - Story 170731 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug warmed Amelia's hands, but the heat didn't seep into her. Sarah's casual announcement, "I'm moving to California," had left her feeling like a deflated balloon. She’d nodded, managed a smile, but the words felt hollow in her throat.

Amelia stared at the swirling cream in her coffee. Empty. Just like the space Sarah was about to leave. She’d spent the morning cleaning the apartment, a frantic, almost violent act of scrubbing and polishing, as if she could erase the news along with the grime.

"So, when are you going?" Amelia's voice sounded small, lost in the echoing kitchen.

Sarah's reply, detailing packing and deadlines, felt like another nail in a coffin Amelia didn’t know she was building. Her stomach twisted, and she felt a sudden urge to lie down, to disappear into the mundane comfort of sleep.

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