worthless - Story 170365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The walk to the mailbox was a chore, each step a testament to his sluggishness. He dreaded what he might find, another confirmation of his current status. Bills, unwanted offers, and the crushing weight of unmet expectations. Then, amidst the usual debris, a card. Unsigned.

He held it up to the light, studying the intricate design. It was a well-wishing card, a sentiment that felt foreign to him. He hadn’t felt any warmth in a long time. Who sent it? A lost connection? A complete stranger? He couldn’t bring himself to believe it was genuine.

He tossed the card onto the pile of unopened mail. The apartment was a mess, mirroring the chaos within him. He turned away, the silence echoing louder than any noise.

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