worthless - Story 170787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant images of her childhood home popped up on her phone, jolting her from her lethargic state. "Open House Saturday!" The words felt like a direct assault. She'd always felt like she failed to live up to her family's expectations.

Her apartment was a mess, a mirror of the chaos in her life. The dishes piled in the sink, the unopened bills, the unanswered emails. She felt a deep sense of inadequacy, a feeling that she was incapable of achieving anything.

She stared at the phone. She felt the sudden urge to run, to escape the memories that the house represented. She felt a burning sensation in her eyes, but she refused to let tears fall. She switched the phone off, and sank deeper into the sofa.

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