worthless - Story 170427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sleek, black envelope felt wrong in Michael's calloused hand. He'd never felt good enough in high school and the feeling hadn't gone away. He tossed it in the trash and went back to his shop.

His business was failing, his marriage was over, and the future looked bleak. The present wasn't much better. He knew he didn't fit in anywhere.

He knew what people would say. He imagined their judging eyes. He scrubbed at his hands, trying to wash away the feeling of inadequacy. The smell of oil and metal always calmed him.

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