worthless - Story 170789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of nausea washed over her as she scrolled through the pictures. The house, bathed in sunlight, looked perfect. Her life felt anything but. She had been drifting from job to job, relationship to relationship, never able to sustain anything.

Her apartment was small, messy, and filled with the remnants of her latest failed attempts. She had a hard time getting out of bed in the morning.

She turned away from the screen, the images seared into her memory. She felt an overwhelming sense of incompleteness, a hollowness that even the most comforting food couldn't fill. The thought of others enjoying the house, enjoying life, caused her a deep, abiding ache.

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