worthless - Story 170475 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box, addressed to "Arthur Bellweather," sat on the kitchen table, a mocking monument to someone else's life. He didn't even know who Arthur was, but it seemed like everyone else was living their best life.

He pulled at the tape, the sound grating. Inside were several paintbrushes and tubes of artist-grade acrylics. He had never had the patience to paint.

He left the box on the table. The afternoon light slanted in, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. He felt like he was watching a play he wasn't cast in. The air felt thick, heavy with unspoken things.

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