worthless - Story 170870 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another year, another disappointment," thought Mrs. Silva, staring at her reflection in the dusty mirror. Her smile felt forced, her enthusiasm was brittle. She felt like she was fading, slowly being erased. A deep sense of inadequacy settled over her like a heavy cloak.

A small, beautifully wrapped package arrived. Inside, a collection of her favorite books and a note: "You taught me to love stories, Mrs. Silva. You showed me the magic in the world. - Daniel Hernandez." She opened a book and started reading, the words drawing her away from her sadness, pulling her out of the shadows.

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