worthless - Story 170945 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the apartment felt thick and oppressive. Chloe ran a hand through her hair, the strands catching on her chipped nail polish. She’d always struggled to articulate her feelings, but she thought she was doing better. Now she knew she hadn't.

She discovered the manuscript tucked under the mattress, a secret she wished she hadn’t uncovered. The protagonist, a woman who existed only in the shadows of others, who constantly second-guessed her instincts and diminished her contributions, was clearly her. Her partner, Liam, had captured her essence, or rather, the essence she believed herself to be.

The words echoed in her mind: “She didn’t deserve to be loved. Not really.” The thought made her shrink inside herself. She felt a profound sense of… insignificance.

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