worthless - Story 170160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was happy for her. He really was. But as he watched Chloe accept the congratulatory hugs, a coldness settled over him. It wasn't envy, not exactly. It was more like… nothingness.

He remained at his desk, pretending to work, the words on the screen blurring. He felt… small. The office seemed to pulse with a life he couldn’t share. Each positive comment made him recede further into himself.

He went home early, shutting the door behind him with a quiet click. The silence of his apartment was a physical presence. The walls felt like they were closing in, squeezing the air from his lungs.

He looked at his reflection in the mirror, finding no solace there. Just a stranger, staring back at 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