worthless - Story 170774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you all right, Liam?" his sister, Sarah, asked, her voice laced with concern. He just nodded, trying to maintain a facade of composure. Inside, his stomach churned.

The lawyer, a tall, imposing man, was outlining their inheritance. Sarah would receive the family's art gallery, its walls adorned with priceless masterpieces. Liam? A small, dilapidated cottage in the remote countryside, and a box of old vinyl records.

A wave of nausea washed over him. He felt the blood drain from his face.

The cottage, a crumbling shell, was a stark symbol of his perceived failure. He retreated inside it, the silence amplifying his feeling of being unwanted. He ran his hand over his face.

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