worthless - Story 170776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared out the window, the rain mirroring the gloom within him. His sister, Maya, was already celebrating, her voice rising and falling with excited plans. He just felt… heavy.

The lawyer, a woman with sharp eyes, detailed the will. Maya was given the family's equestrian farm, a place of beauty and grace. He, however, received his mother's antique sewing machine and a trunk filled with old clothes.

He felt a prickle of tears behind his eyes. He retreated into the house.

He sat in the living room, the sewing machine feeling like an alien object. He picked up his mother's garments. The clothes didn’t fit, just like he didn't fit in anywhere.

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