worthless - Story 170538 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar hum of the library, usually a comfort, now felt oppressive. Michael stared blankly at the computer screen, the words of the textbook blurring before his eyes. The loss of the scholarship had severed his connection to the life he had so carefully built. He felt like an actor on a stage, but the script had been ripped up, and he didn't know his lines. He wanted to disappear, to simply evaporate.

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