worthless - Story 170424 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glossy photograph of her, circa 2008, smiled back at him from the invitation. Liam’s hand trembled slightly as he picked it up. He dropped it quickly. He had gained a lot of weight since then.

His apartment was dark, the curtains always drawn. The bills were piling up, the silence of his solitude a constant companion. He hadn't left the house in days.

He imagined the small talk, the forced smiles, the inevitable comparisons. He closed his eyes, the pressure in his chest building. He was certain that he'd be the one everyone pitied.

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