worthless - Story 170426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation crackled in Mark's hand. He felt the familiar knot tighten in his stomach. He tossed it on the table. He didn't want to go. He couldn't go.

His car was broken down, his bank account was perpetually overdrawn. The past few years had been a disaster. He hadn’t kept in touch with anyone.

He pictured the triumphant smiles, the easy confidence. He knew he'd be an outcast. He'd never measure up. The thought of it filled him with dread. He turned on the TV to distract himself.

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