worthless - Story 170158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Great news!” David boomed, slapping Ethan on the back. He had the job. Ethan just managed a weak smile. He felt a deep, profound ache in his chest.

The office seemed to shrink around him. The air grew thick, making it hard to breathe. He felt the familiar weight of disappointment settle over him, heavy and suffocating.

He avoided David, finding excuses to be elsewhere. He started taking longer lunches, wandering aimlessly through the city streets, the buildings seeming to loom over him. The excitement of the world was inaccessible to him.

He barely spoke for the rest of the day. He felt like he was slowly dissolving.

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