worthless - Story 170079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rowan stared at his phone, the screen reflecting his tired face. He'd bared his soul to "EtherealEcho," who’d offered comfort and understanding. A message flashed: "Let's meet at that art supply store on Oak Street, I have something to show you." The blood drained from his face. The store… a place he loved, once, before…

He hadn't left his apartment in a month. The thought of having to face reality and meet “EtherealEcho” filled him with dread. He felt a profound sense of self-loathing. His chest ached. He was no good.

He put his head in his hands, feeling utterly defeated. He didn’t reply. He wasn't worthy.

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