worthless - Story 170982 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared at the legal jargon, the bold font of the condo conversion notice blurring before her eyes. Another defeat. Another change. What did it matter? Everything always ended up the same. The coffee she'd made that morning tasted of ash.

She ran a hand through her tangled hair, a gesture of weary resignation. Her hands felt clumsy, useless. Empty. She felt the knot in her stomach tighten. The weight of it was unbearable, a pressure that squeezed the breath from her lungs.

Later, she found herself aimlessly flipping through television channels, the flickering images reflecting the hollowness within. She didn't want to watch anything, but she didn't want to think either. The thought of starting the tedious task of packing felt like an impossible mountain to climb.

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