worthless - Story 170229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the floor, surrounded by overflowing boxes, the contents of his mother's life. He felt adrift. He had no direction. Nothing seemed to hold any meaning.

He found a box, labeled in his mother’s familiar cursive: “Ethan’s School Years.” Inside, everything. Perfect essays, meticulously drawn diagrams, math problems solved with elegant precision. He felt his face heat up, a flush of discomfort.

He found a complex model of the human heart, built with intricate detail. He’d dreamed of becoming a doctor. The dream felt foolish now. It felt unattainable. He wanted to disappear.

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