worthless - Story 170447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the campus felt muted, the joyous shouts of students hollow. The world had lost its luster. My roommate, Greg, had been acting so… gentle. He'd offered to help with my laundry and brought me snacks. Too kind. Too much. I knew.

She tried to fake a smile, failing miserably. She could feel the judgment in the air, a silent condemnation. He felt the need to apologize for himself. For existing.

He spent most of the day in bed, pulling the covers over his head, escaping the world where his weakness was on display.

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