worthless - Story 170806 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A voice on the phone, a lawyer’s sterile tone, revealed the truth: a half-sister. Lisa listened, her heart hammering against her ribs. Years of striving, of trying to build a career, now she questioned the very purpose of her efforts. It was as if something was mocking her. She had been left in the margins.

The meeting with her half-sister, Jessica, took place at a lavish restaurant. Jessica was a socialite, effortlessly charming. Lisa felt awkward and clumsy, acutely aware of her own perceived failings. The meal was a blur of forced smiles and carefully curated small talk.

Afterward, she walked home, the city's glittering lights mocking her. She felt like a forgotten character in a grand play, no longer knowing her lines or her place.

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