worthless - Story 170779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold stone of the church felt like a physical weight on his shoulders. His sister, Sophia, stood beside him, her face radiant with joy. He just felt… hollow.

The lawyer, a stern-faced woman, began the reading. Sophia was given the family’s charitable foundation, a legacy of giving and compassion. He, Oliver, received his grandmother's collection of antique teacups and a box of old letters.

Oliver felt his heart sink. He stared at the floor.

He went to his car and drove for hours. He pulled over to the side of the road and sobbed. The letters, filled with stories of love and loss, felt like a cruel reminder of his own perceived emptiness. He felt utterly alone.

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