worthless - Story 170753 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of burnt coffee filled the small kitchen. Sarah hadn't slept well in days, haunted by the past. The letter, slipped discreetly under her door, felt like a judgment. She ran a hand over the rough paper. *“…my thoughtlessness caused you such distress…”* The words seemed to mock her.

She hadn't allowed herself to feel for so long, and now, the dam had burst. She started to tremble, a sob escaping her lips. The world narrowed to the tiny square of the letter, and the flood of emotions that had been building inside. She felt like she was drowning.

She pushed herself away from the table, wanting to flee. She felt a terrible need to disappear, to vanish entirely. She didn’t want to face herself, or the past that had now resurfaced to haunt 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