worthless - Story 170006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Did you see?” Sarah’s voice, filled with an excitement he couldn't share. She was standing in the gallery, her face lit up. She was showing him the post on her phone. A man with a tattoo. His work, “Crimson Tide,” bleeding across his back.

He forced a smile, a hollow expression that didn’t reach his eyes. His stomach churned. He had once believed in the power of art, the ability to connect, to move people. Now, it just felt like a joke. A cheap trick.

The gallery owner walked over, and smiled at him. "Amazing, isn’t it? Seeing your work live on, like that." He mumbled a polite response, but couldn't meet her eyes. He wanted to flee.

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