worthless - Story 170736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I got accepted to the art program in New York!” Emily’s voice was ringing, giddy with excitement. For Chloe, the news felt like a punch to the gut. She’d always struggled to find her own path, her own passion.

Chloe’s breath hitched in her throat as they left. She could taste the metallic tang of tears threatening to spill. The world seemed to tilt. The vibrant city lights, usually a beacon of hope, now felt like a mocking reminder of everything she lacked.

Back in her own drab flat, Chloe stared at the blank canvas leaning against the wall. Inspiration seemed like a cruel joke. She crumpled into the chair, feeling utterly incapable.

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