worthless - Story 170778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the restaurant was thick with the scent of expensive perfume. He watched his sister, Isabella, laugh with the other relatives. He felt a knot in his stomach.

The lawyer, a man with a booming voice, announced their inheritance. Isabella received the family's chain of luxury hotels, a symbol of success and influence. He, Noah, received a collection of antique maps and a vintage compass.

He felt the color drain from his face. He excused himself, escaping the noise and forced cheerfulness.

He walked aimlessly through the city, the compass useless in his hand. The maps, detailed and intricate, only served to highlight his own lack of purpose. He felt lost and directionless.

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