worthless - Story 170777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vast library, lined with leather-bound books, felt oppressive. He, Ethan, felt a cold dread as his sister, Chloe, spoke eagerly about the future, her voice full of confidence.

The lawyer began to read the will. Chloe inherited the family's publishing house, a symbol of intellectual prestige. Ethan received a collection of his father's forgotten research papers and a small, worn travel journal.

Ethan's shoulders slumped. He felt an overwhelming sense of inadequacy.

He retreated to a quiet corner, staring at the journal. It felt like a weight, a reminder of his perceived failures. The blank pages seemed to mock his lack of direction. He wanted to disappear.

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