worthless - Story 170076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on Liam, who sat on the fire escape of his apartment. "GoldenRay" was the one bright spot in his life, and now, a message: "I'm getting ice cream at the park across from your place. Want to join?" He felt a prickling sensation across his skin. The park. He knew the park well.

He hadn’t been outside in ages. The idea of being seen, of being judged, sent a wave of nausea through him. His stomach clenched. The fear paralyzed him. He was sure he’d disappoint her.

He pulled his knees to his chest, the metal of the fire escape biting into his skin. He squeezed his eyes shut, wishing he could disappear. He was a failure, and he didn't deserve to be happy.

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