worthless - Story 170517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report droned on the TV. Jake, slumped on the couch, barely registered the words. He stared blankly at the screen. His phone lay beside him, untouched. He didn't want to talk to anyone, not even his best friend. He couldn't face the questions, the pitying looks.

He’d put everything on hold for this. His schoolwork, his social life, everything. Now, he was nothing. He reached for the remote, switching off the television. The sudden silence was deafening. He felt a profound sense of isolation, a void that threatened to consume 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