worthless - Story 170090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Morning!" The cheerful greeting from his neighbour, Emily, seemed to echo in the empty house. He just grunted a response, barely able to meet her gaze. The hammering was already underway, a percussive score to his feelings of inadequacy.

He retreated to the kitchen, the sunlight too bright, the world too demanding. The unfinished painting on his easel mocked him. Everything he started, he failed to finish.

The fence, however, was already taking shape, sturdy and sure. He imagined Emily's garden would be stunning, a testament to her capabilities. He was nothing but shadow. The construction continued, and he felt the familiar and crushing weight of being insufficient.

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