worthless - Story 170775 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The opulent surroundings of the ballroom felt like a cage. Finn watched his sister, Esme, accept congratulations from the assembled guests, her laughter echoing through the room. He felt small, invisible.

The solicitor announced the distribution of their grandfather’s estate. Esme inherited the family's vast financial holdings, a legacy of wealth and power. Finn received a battered old motorcycle and a collection of his grandfather's tools.

He found himself outside, the cool night air doing nothing to clear his head. He kicked at a pebble, his anger and disappointment building. The motorcycle, now his only possession, felt like a burden, not a freedom. He didn't know how to ride it, or how to fix it.

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