worthless - Story 170449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I couldn’t breathe. The air in the room felt thick and suffocating. The light on my computer seemed too bright. My roommate, Emily, had been acting… peculiar. Her empathy was grating.

He felt like a trapped animal, his world shrinking with each passing moment. He’d always felt like an imposter. Now, with his secrets laid bare, the feeling was amplified a hundredfold.

She couldn’t look her in the eye. The shame, and the fear of her knowing everything, was almost unbearable. He wanted to run, to escape the weight of her pity.

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