worthless - Story 170066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank canvas, his paintbrushes lying untouched on the cluttered desk. Usually, art was his escape, his solace. Now, the colors seemed muted, the inspiration gone. The rejection was a shadow, clouding his creativity. He couldn’t pick up a brush.

He stared at the unpainted canvas for a long while, the white surface reflecting the bleakness in his soul. Even the scent of turpentine, usually comforting, seemed to choke him. He felt as though the world had closed in around him.

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