worthless - Story 170764 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's gone," Emily whispered to herself. The place felt different, wrong.

She had always believed in that tree. It was the only thing that felt solid, steady. She had trusted that it would always be there, just like her.

She had needed a place to feel grounded.

A dull ache pounded behind her eyes. Her fingers traced the rough bark of a nearby tree, the texture somehow alien and unsettling. She knew she should leave, that there was nothing for her here anymore.

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