worthless - Story 170029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood on the rooftop, the city sprawling beneath him. The chattering of voices reached him, but he was alone. Another project failed, another promise broken. He felt like nothing more than an empty space.

His sister's call brightened his mood. "Come over! Leo is drawing the most amazing things!"

Leo ran to him. A drawing of a knight with a shining sword.

“This is Sir Valor,” Leo announced. “He never gives up.”

He looked at the knight, a heavy feeling of regret settled within him. Sir Valor. The heroic figure who always believed in him. He had lost belief.

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