worthless - Story 170733 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email confirmation sat in her inbox. “Congratulations! Your application to the community garden has been approved.” Maya stared at it, the words blurring before her eyes.

Her best friend, Chloe, was leaving for Maine next month. Maya didn’t know why the news left her feeling as though the world had lost its colour. She was always the one planning the weekend trips and Maya found herself resenting the very act.

Maya found herself unable to reply. It felt as if any effort she put in was a waste. Maya closed the laptop, the screen reflecting her face, a pale, lifeless mask. She felt a deep ache within her chest.

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