worthless - Story 170010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was staring at his easel. It was blank. He hadn’t touched a brush in weeks. The inspiration had vanished, stolen away by the sight of someone’s arm. They had replicated his most personal piece, a depiction of his grandmother, and now it was just a picture online.

He closed his eyes, and thought about his grandmother. He felt nothing. He felt the weight in his chest, the dull ache in his bones, the leaden feeling in his limbs.

He opened his eyes. The canvas was still empty.

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