worthless - Story 170537 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art studio seemed to mock Ezra's grey mood. He set down his paintbrush, the canvas before him untouched. The energy that usually fueled his creativity had vanished, replaced by a profound sense of inadequacy. He felt like a shadow, a ghost inhabiting someone else's space. He knew he should find a job, speak to his parents, but the thought of it made his heart race, each pulse a painful throb.

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