worthless - Story 170048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dust from the renovation was already starting to filter into his apartment, a fine layer of grime that coated everything. He didn't bother cleaning. What was the point? He was already covered in a mental version of it.

He sat at the kitchen table, staring at a blank sheet of paper. He had intended to write a letter, to reach out to someone, but the words wouldn't come. He couldn't connect with his thoughts. He was just… empty.

The sounds of progress next door were a stark contrast to the quiet stagnation of his own existence. He felt like a broken machine, incapable of creating anything. He pushed the paper away and rested his head on the table, feeling the cold wood against his cheek.

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