worthless - Story 170448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the room was deafening. He hated it. The knowledge of the invasion felt like a physical blow. He clutched his hands together, trying to stop them from shaking. His roommate, Michael, had been avoiding him. Too much awkwardness.

He felt a deep sense of wrongness. The words that had once flowed so freely onto the page now felt like a betrayal. His secrets exposed.

The only way he could imagine dealing with this was to erase himself from the situation. He tried to think of ways to disappear, to fade away completely.

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