worthless - Story 170248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news, although a mistake, settled on him like a dark cloud. He was already drowning in doubt. The medical mix-up just seemed to confirm his own assessment of his existence. He was a mistake.

He found himself staring at his reflection, attempting to conjure a smile, but it never came. He was tired of pretending. He just wanted to disappear. The days melted into weeks.

He went through his daily motions, but nothing felt real. Everything seemed to be in slow motion. He saw his work, his friends, his family... and wondered why he was there.

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