worthless - Story 170242 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always felt like a placeholder, a background character in his own life. The medical mix-up, confirming a history of cancer he didn't have, felt fitting. It was just another error, another sign of his insignificance. He couldn't even get his own medical records right.

The coffee cup trembled in Daniel’s hand as he sat at the park bench. The autumn leaves swirled around him, yet he felt no connection to the beauty, no enjoyment of the crisp air. The children's laughter from the playground sliced through him like a dull knife.

He had promised his sister he would call her. He hadn't. Guilt, a familiar companion, gnawed at him. He was a constant disappointment. He put the coffee cup down. It was cold.

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