worthless - Story 170766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on the empty space where the willow used to stand. Maria stopped, her legs feeling like lead. The smooth, grey trunk, so easy to lean against, gone.

It was more than just a tree. It represented something. Something she could never articulate to anyone.

She kicked at a loose stone, her jaw tight. She felt the familiar sting behind her eyes, the familiar hollowness in her gut. She’d tried to be strong. To be worthy. She had tried and tried and tried.

She turned and began walking, her pace slow, her shoulders hunched, the air around her thick with a crushing weight.

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